I’m going to be heading up to the Eglington area tomorrow to show off my FoxIt eSlick. If you’re in Toronto and want to mess with one, be sure to check out the MobileRead thread. Unfortunately the attendance list is a little low (8 confirmed including myself), but in my experience these meetups tend to [...]
News has been making the rounds that Some E-books are More Equal than Others. Funny to see an Animal Farm quote referencing 1984, but I digress. The piece by David Pogue explains how Amazon issued a compulsory recall, no user intervention required, on copies of 1984 sold by a particular publisher. To the best of [...]
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 I’ve [...]
Image via Wikipedia 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.
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Speaker is Evan Leibovitch. He works at York and was given the mandate to make research more accessable.
Image by Phil Gyford via Flickr When I buy a piece of media, whether it’s a book or movie or piece of music, I’d like to be able to enjoy it wherever I want on whatever device I want, without having to rebuy it. It’s already accepted that once you buy a CD you can [...]
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