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Publishers determined to kill electronic books

A recent judgement makes it a breach of copyright to sell pre-owned eBooks. Do publishers really want to deter everyone from buying eBooks?

December 26, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Taking text further

The Books app demonstrates how stultified is the approach to text on computers. It’s carefully engineered to work like a book, not to bring any new powers to text or reading.

April 28, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Going back to the book

Search engines don’t work, as they’re indifferent to quality and accuracy of content. Existing eBook formats are little more than book-in-browser. So how to publish more demanding content?

April 30, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Waterstones closes its eBook store, transfers to Kobo

Waterstones, the large UK chain of bookshops, has announced that it is to close its electronic book (eBook) […]

May 23, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Virtual books, virtual ownership, real profits

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When a publisher shuts, physical books don’t lock themselves, erase their pages, or crumble into dust. eBooks do.

March 19, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Has the Edinburgh University Press invented the hardback eBook?

A very odd pricing structure for a new book.

January 5, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Wishes almost granted

What happens when you ask for electronic publishing tools? You end up with products which bind you into constraints, charge royalties, or have to be leased.

May 1, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

The End is Nigh?

I am sure that some of the 22,000 tablets in the library of the kings of Assyria at […]

April 28, 2015 General, Macs, Technology
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