Stores I check before iTunes

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Now that iTunes tossed the music DRM I no longer have a problem buying from them. Well, except for the price. Even before they jacked up the prices on some tracks to $1.29 and broke the ten dollar album barrier I never really liked their album pricing.

So what happened to the Apple Challenge?

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It’s been roughly a year since I lost my faith in the Free Software Foundation. I’d long since been annoyed by juvenile derogatory names like the “Swindle” being used to refer to Amazon’s Kindle and place it on the same level as calling a certain Redmond company “Micro$oft.” While that was enough to [...]

#bcto09 Elaborating on my textbooks

At BookcampTO I got a lot of attention during the Kindle, Schmindle talk when I brought up changing attitudes towards print books in higher education. The reason I gave was that I downloaded books under Creative Commons, GFDL and free-as-in-beer licenses. I’d like to give more context and a few examples of the textbooks [...]

#bcto09 on bookish communities

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Hugh McGuire is talking. He starts off with his introduction to LibriVox. It’s a project to make free audiobooks by reading public domain books aloud.

#bcto09: Kindle, Shmindle notes

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Speaker is Evan Leibovitch. He works at York and was given the mandate to make research more accessable.