TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » cory doctorow http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:25:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.3 Audible.com offers great audiobooks, lousy player applications http://www.teleread.com/drm/audible-com-offers-great-audiobooks-lousy-player-applications/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/audible-com-offers-great-audiobooks-lousy-player-applications/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:45:39 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=125735 Audible has a great selection of audiobook downloads, and reasonable prices—especially if you buy during one of their frequent sales, using the discount offer for buying them together with certain Kindle e-books, or using one of their monthly credits. But since Audible’s books contain DRM, in some respect they are only as good as their […]

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Cory Doctorow speaks on self-publishing, Amazon, DRM, Hachette, and a whole lot else besides http://www.teleread.com/publishing/cory-doctorow-speaks-self-publishing-amazon-drm-hachette-whole-lot-else-besides/ http://www.teleread.com/publishing/cory-doctorow-speaks-self-publishing-amazon-drm-hachette-whole-lot-else-besides/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:25:17 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=124184 Cory Doctorow came over to Budapest at the invitation of the Center for Media, Data and Society of Central European University to speak on policing computers and other issues. In the course of a fascinating interview with me, he shared a slew of observations on a great many issues, many of which I’ll be presenting in […]

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Night Vale co-creator shares secrets of success: Love and integrity http://www.teleread.com/podcasts/night-vale-co-creator-shares-secrets-success-love-integrity/ http://www.teleread.com/podcasts/night-vale-co-creator-shares-secrets-success-love-integrity/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:35:17 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=121091 Welcome to Night Vale has long passed the point where it needs any introduction, with the spinoff book deal just one of the many developments around the hugely popular, slightly unsettling podcast series bringing news and wackiness from America’s spookiest community. Now, series co-creator Jeffrey Cranor has shared some of the secrets of his success […]

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Writers and GamerGate http://www.teleread.com/games-2/writers-gamergate/ http://www.teleread.com/games-2/writers-gamergate/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:25:34 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=119799 Anyone not living under the same rock that many of its adherents crawled out from under will surely know by now about GamerGate, the supposed activist movement to defend traditional computer gaming standards and values, which has mushroomed into an umbrella grouping for all kinds of self-righteous victimhood, hate speech, intimidation, trolling, and even death threats. […]

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Webcomic ‘Help Desk’ takes on e-book DRM http://www.teleread.com/drm/webcomic-help-desk-takes-on-e-book-drm/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/webcomic-help-desk-takes-on-e-book-drm/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:20:48 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=116368 If you could use a good chuckle, webcomic “Help Desk” has just started a storyline focusing on e-book DRM. (The storyline then continues here.) It seems to have been inspired by the letter that Cory Doctorow received from Hachette about DRM. Since some authors publish with Tor in the USA but Hachette in the UK, […]

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Dumping DRM is not a panacea http://www.teleread.com/drm/dumping-drm-is-not-a-panacea/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/dumping-drm-is-not-a-panacea/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:23:24 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=114831 As I’ve watched the e-book market develop, I’ve gradually lost a good deal of patience with the argument that DRM is the thing keeping people locked into the Amazon Kindle ecosystem. The latest example to pop up comes via Cory Doctorow’s latest column in The Guardian (found via BoingBoing). Doctorow feels Hachette is hoist by […]

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Cory Doctorow fights high school censorship with 200 copies of Little Brother http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/cory-doctorow-fights-high-school-censorship-with-200-copies-of-little-brother/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/cory-doctorow-fights-high-school-censorship-with-200-copies-of-little-brother/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:16:26 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=114185 On BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow writes about a high school in Pensacola, Florida that had been scheduled to have his novel Little Brother in its summer reading program until the principal put his foot down. In an email conversation with Ms Griffith, the principal cited reviews that emphasized the book’s positive view of questioning authority, lauding […]

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London’s Literary Conference 2014 targets digiterati/digital wannabes http://www.teleread.com/writing/londons-literary-conference-2014-targets-digiteratidigital-wannabes/ http://www.teleread.com/writing/londons-literary-conference-2014-targets-digiteratidigital-wannabes/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:21:02 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=113715 The UK's Literary Consultancy, self-described as "the UK’s most established editorial consultancy, supported by Arts Council England," and "the UK's leading editorial assessment service," has launched The Literary Conference, billed as "an essential event for writers and those working with them, to catch up on the very latest in technology and thinking in the book publishing world."

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Which Hachette books are affected by Amazon spat, and why Kindle users are locked in http://www.teleread.com/drm/which-hachette-books-are-affected-by-amazon-spat-and-why-kindle-users-are-locked-in/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/which-hachette-books-are-affected-by-amazon-spat-and-why-kindle-users-are-locked-in/#comments Thu, 29 May 2014 10:34:36 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=113599 Here’s some more assorted Amazon/Hachette coverage. First of all, Gizmodo has some examples of the books you find on “Amazon’s hit list,” with charts comparing pricing and availability at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The article itself is rather slanted, concluding with the call to action, “Amazon has every right to fight dirty. And you […]

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New author advocacy group Authors Alliance seeks to counterbalance Authors Guild on fair use issues http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/new-author-advocacy-group-authors-alliance-seeks-to-counterbalance-authors-guild-on-fair-use-issues/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/new-author-advocacy-group-authors-alliance-seeks-to-counterbalance-authors-guild-on-fair-use-issues/#comments Wed, 14 May 2014 15:28:30 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=112840 A group of writers and copyright experts concerned over Authors Guild overreach has formed its own new author advocacy group, the Authors Alliance, to advocate in favor of fair use of works. Publishers Weekly has a fairly long interview with one of its directors, law professor Pamela Samuelson of the UC Berkeley Center for Law […]

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Humble Bundle about to launch third e-book bundle http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/humble-bundle-about-to-launch-third-e-book-bundle/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/humble-bundle-about-to-launch-third-e-book-bundle/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:10:18 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=109891 The launch of the new Humble Bundle is still just under two hours away (until then, you have one last chance to snag some terrific Android games, nine of them for under $4—Zombie Gunship is some crazy fun!) but Publishers Weekly has just revealed what the new one is going to be. It’s going to […]

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Humble Bundle plans to expand e-book, audiobook offerings http://www.teleread.com/drm/humble-bundle-plans-to-expand-e-book-audiobook-offerings/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/humble-bundle-plans-to-expand-e-book-audiobook-offerings/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2014 01:25:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=108957 Remember the Humble E-Book Bundles? Humble’s done a couple of them (not counting the ones by other bundle sites) plus an audiobook bundle, and wants to do more. Calvin Reid has a great article at Publishers Weekly looking at the Humble Bundle e-book program in depth. It has some interesting facts. It turns out that […]

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E-Books pit libraries against publishers, free against sales http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-books-pit-libraries-against-publishers-free-against-sales/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-books-pit-libraries-against-publishers-free-against-sales/#comments Thu, 08 Aug 2013 00:28:58 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=93674 A few pieces on the sometimes adversarial relationship between libraries and publishers when it comes to e-books have come to my attention. First, there’s this piece covering Cory Doctorow’s appearance at the American Library Association Conference in Chicago, complete with a four-minute YouTube video. Doctorow notes that the most powerful interests in the book industry […]

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YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley says let my freebies go http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/youtube-co-founder-chad-hurley-says-let-my-freebies-go/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/youtube-co-founder-chad-hurley-says-let-my-freebies-go/#comments Mon, 05 Aug 2013 02:08:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=93359 The Australian House of Representatives committee report on hardware and software pricing, geographical restrictions, copyright law, and other issues around tech and digital media in Australia, hasn’t exactly vanished into the legislative waste basket. Indeed, it’s sparked comment and reaction across the Internet thanks to the spectacle of a developed economy siding with the little […]

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The problem with watermarking http://www.teleread.com/drm/the-problem-with-watermarking/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/the-problem-with-watermarking/#comments Wed, 10 Jul 2013 02:38:20 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=90161 Remember SiDiM, that supposedly novel idea for secretly watermarking a text by changing random words in order to be able to tell who leaked it? (“Novel” is right. Tom Clancy’s protagonist in The Hunt for Red October proposed something similar as a way to tell who leaked classified documents.) Cory Doctorow has his turn taking […]

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