Nate asked me to write a short piece on what devices I’m currently using for e-reading. As it happens, there is one I’ve been using a lot lately, and...
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Author: Chris Meadows
Chris Meadows, Editor of TeleRead, has been writing about e-books and mobile devices since 1999: first for ThemeStream, later for Jeff Kirvin's Writing on Your Palm, and then for TeleRead starting in 2006. He has also contributed a few articles to The Digital Reader along the way. Chris has bought e-books from Peanut Press/eReader, Fictionwise, Baen, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the Humble Bundle, and others. He is a strong believer in using Calibre to keep his library organized.
Got a New Fire Tablet? Here are Some Great Apps to Install From the Amazon Appstore
So, you’ve just gotten a new Fire tablet—as part of the Black Friday sale, for Christmas, your birthday, or what-have-you—and now you’re ready to put some apps on it. What’s...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership IP Chapter Leaks, & It’s as Bad As We Feared
Wikileaks has obtained and posted a recent draft of the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. All in all, it’s pretty bad news. The Guardian covers...
Continue readingCopyright Office Accepts Comments on Resale Royalty Bill for Paintings
In 2008, I wrote on TeleRead about groups advocating imposing droit se suite, the repeated royalty payment on resold works of art that exists in Europe, onto books, so...
Continue readingUK 20p eBook Sale Controversy Distracts from Retailer Control Issues
A few months ago, Sony launched an e-book store in the UK and started promotionally discounting some bestsellers to just 20 pence (about 32 and 1/3 cents, US, as...
Continue readingAmazon Asks Court to Throw Out Apple App Store Lawsuit
About 18 months ago, Apple sued Amazon for false advertising and trademark violation over using the term “app store” to describe its, well, Android app store—which is to say,...
Continue readingAuthor’s eBook Giveaway Runs Afoul of Google Copyright Bots
Apparently Google has a problem with its ads being posted on sites that “distribute copyrighted materials.” (Never mind that this should mean they shouldn’t have ads on any sites,...
Continue readingAt $17.99, The Casual Vacancy eBook Not a Casual Purchase
With her new book, The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling is not going to repeat her Harry Potter mistake and keep the electronic version sequestered away for years. But as...
Continue readingAuthors Trade Revenue for Wider Distribution under German Self-Publishing Deal
When it comes to self-publishing, we Americans tend to think in the context of Amazon and other American businesses. But there are now thriving self-publishing companies all over the...
Continue readingConnecting Real Paper to the Internet
Here’s an interesting piece on paidContent talking about the possibility of embedding electronics in genuine paper in order to add the ability to play audio, send Facebook likes, and...
Continue readingA Golden Age of Digital Plagiarism Checking
PaidContent has an interesting piece on another plagiarism kerfuffle in the news lately, as a columnist from one newspaper used verbatim quotes from someone else without crediting them for...
Continue readingStoryBundle Commits Pay-What-You-Want in ‘The Second Degree’
Just got an email this morning noting that StoryBundle’s doing its second pay-what-you-feel-like collection of indie fiction. In keeping with being the second, this one is called “The Second...
Continue readingDoes Amazon Have Physical Stores In Store?
ZDNet has some more speculation on the possibility of Amazon opening physical stores, sparked by the recent announcement Wal-Mart would no longer be carrying Amazon’s devices. Wal-Mart, ZDNet thinks,...
Continue readingDo We Cling to Analog from Mindset or Necessity?
In a pair of pieces on Publishing Perspectives, Rachel Aydt and Edward Nawotka ponder the way that the analog/digital divide may not be as divisive as we thought. Aydt...
Continue readingHow Technology Has Changed Stories In My Life
In the first of a series of monthly essays on The Literary Platform, Professor David Trotter ponders the question of what technology can do for stories. A lot of...
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