Article: Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words

29 August 2013 by particularkev

The link below is to an article concerning the latest words added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/new-words-dictionary_n_3829770.html

Google calls book scanning “transformative” in latest push for fair use ruling

28 August 2013 by particularkev

Google(s goog) and the Authors Guild’s eight-year legal fight over digital books is coming to a head once again, as both sides prepare to make their final case next month about whether Google’s scanning of more than 20 million library books is fair use under copyright law.

In documents filed in New York federal court this week, Google argues at length that the scanning is “transformative” — a legal concept that gained importance after the Supreme Court used it in 1994 to rule in favor of rappers 2LiveCrew, who had sampled the Roy Orbison song “Pretty Woman” without permission. Google argues:

“Google has copied no more than is necessary to achieve its transformative purpose and give rise to the social benefits of full-text search…Google improved on existing indices so substantially that its use was transformative.”

The “transformative” factor is not an automatic shield against copyright infringement. Instead, the term is just…

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Article: More Calibre Update News

28 August 2013 by particularkev

The link below is to an article with more news on the latest Calibre update.

For more visit:
http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/calibre-update-brings-ms-word-conversion_b39954

Article: Used Bookstores

28 August 2013 by particularkev

The link below is to an article about ‘updating’ used bookstores/bookshops.

For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexander-wooley/strategies-for-bringing-t_b_3814098.html

Apple: Feds aim to “give Amazon a significant competitive advantage” in ebooks case

27 August 2013 by particularkev

Gigaom

In court filings posted Monday morning, Apple (s AAPL) attorney Orin Snyder responded to the Department of Justice’s revised proposed punishment for the tech company in the ebooks case. Snyder criticized the government for filing “a 12-page broadside masquerading as a brief,” and accused them of “seeking a remedy that would give Amazon a significant competitive advantage over Apple.” (The filings are embedded below.)

U.S. district judge Dense Cote found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to set ebook prices last month, and Apple is appealing that verdict. Nonetheless, it responded directly to various parts of the DOJ’s proposed injunction. The DOJ is arguing for a number of things: Changes in the way that Apple sells content in the App Store, including allowing ebook retailers to sell ebooks directly through their apps without Apple taking a cut; staggered negotiations with book publishers; and the creation of a third party monitor to…

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Feedly dominating the post-Reader world, and other web-publishing insights from Parse.ly

27 August 2013 by particularkev

Gigaom

Parse.ly, the web-publishing analytics startup that launched in early 2012, has released the first edition of what’s expected to be a monthly look into the top sources driving traffic to publishers’ sites. The first edition of the Authority Report, as Parse.ly has dubbed it, covers July 2013 and shows — among other insights — Feedly crushing other RSS readers in the first month sans Google Reader.

Parse.ly also announced on Monday that it has raised a $5 million Series A venture capital round. Grotech Ventures led the round with participation from Blumberg Capital, ff Venture Capital, and FundersClub. I happen to think the report is the interesting part, but the fact that Parse.ly is able to raise money — and to do it so late after launching — underscores the value of its data. Its customer base isn’t indicative of the entirety of the web, but it does…

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Feedly Pro – Available for All

27 August 2013 by particularkev

Medium needs to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up

26 August 2013 by particularkev

Gigaom

What is Medium? Or, more importantly, what does it want to be? A growing number of media observers have tried to attack that question, the latest being Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic, who was ultimately unable to arrive at a satisfactory answer. It is, he said, “a place to read articles on the internet.” Is that enough, considering that description could be used for everything from Reddit to the New York Times? Only founder Evan Williams knows the answer to that — and it’s possible that even he isn’t sure.

But if Medium is to be successful, rather than just being a plaything for the former Twitter CEO, it is going to have to decide what it wants to be and how it plans to get there.

As Madrigal notes in his piece, entitled simply “What is Medium?,” the inherent contradictions — or at least the potential…

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