The link below is to an article that reports on ebooks and children, and the dangers children are being exposed to.
For more visit:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10258803/Check-what-e-books-your-children-are-reading-NSPCC-urges-parents.html
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Website: Penguin Australia Launches New Teen Website
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the new Penguin Australia website for teens – ‘Penguin Teen Australia.’
For more visit:
http://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/penguin-australia-launches-new-teen-website
Article: Readmill
The link below is to an article that takes a look at Readmill.
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/23/reading-networked-future-readmill-app
Article: Syllable – Speed Reading App
The link below is to an app that teaches you how to speed read.
For more visit:
http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/learn-how-to-speed-read-with-syllable-app_b39855
Article: BookONO – New Ebook Manager
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the new ebook manager called ‘BookONO.’
For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/08/22/bored-with-calibre-try-bookono/
Article: dos-a-dos Book Bindings
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the old ‘dos-a-dos’ bookbinding technique.
For more visit:
http://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com/post/58806441078/siamese-twins-the-bookbindings-above-are-as-odd
Article: Bookshelfies Tumblr – The Latest Trend
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the latest trend – Bookshelfies Tumblr.
For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/bookshelfies-_n_3785796.html
Article: Undownloading
The link below is to an article that takes a look at ‘undownloading,’ which refers to a geographical restriction/location blocking issue.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/drm/undownloading-the-new-geographical-restriction/
Will copyright be extended 20 more years? An old debate returns
Congress is conducting a review of America’s copyright laws, a process that could shape culture and creativity for a generation or more. While the process has so far focused on how to stop piracy, some are asking if Hollywood will try to extend copyright terms once again in order to prevent works like Mickey Mouse from falling into the public domain.
The question came up on the Volokh Conspiracy, a blog popular with legal types, where a law prof proposed starting a pool on whether Congress would extend copyright terms by another 20 years.
While the larger debate has been relatively quiet so far, it could flare up again as it did in the late 1990s when the last 20-year extension led to a bitter legal fight between scholars and librarians on one hand, and Hollywood and the music industry on the other. The entertainment industry ultimately prevailed at…
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Will the Digg Effect make a comeback?
During the latter half of the naughties (2000s), Digg was one of the premier destinations on the web. If your story ended up on the front page of Digg, then you were rewarded by hundreds of thousands of page views, quite a bounty considering publishers big and small made (and still make money) for page-view based advertising. The traffic bump came to be known as the Digg effect (much like being Slashdotted.) Digg, obviously fell on hard times and it was just over a year ago, it was acquired by New York-based technology and media company, Betaworks.
John Borthwick, chief executive of Betaworks, had a plan — Digg still was a good brand and was an ideal vehicle for his vision of a social-data powered recommendation service and news reader. The early attempt at that social news reader, News.me, hadn’t really gone anywhere and they were ready to shut it…
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