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 [...]
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 [...]
Image by kayray via Flickr Canada has become a bit of a backwater when it comes to access to culture. We’re left out of Pandora, Hulu, and the Kindle. Canadian TV streaming is paltry when it comes to selection, a Pandora equivalent is nonexistant, and I didn’t think we had a Kindle alternative until today. [...]
I’m gearing up for my FoxIt eSlick. My eSlick won’t arrive for quite some time but I’m still gathering information on converting ebooks to PDF. So far my biggest sources of ebooks are text files from Project Gutenberg, CHM files from O’Reilly books (apparently PDFCHM.com keeps a database of books that come with free PDFs [...]
Image via Wikipedia (Update: This post wasn’t intended as a how-to but people are getting some use out of it. To fill in the gaps, here is an article on how to install the required tools like pycrypto.)
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