Friday News: Pearson profits down, Adobe develops new DRM, does reading...
Pearson shares hit by profit warning – Pearson, the company that owns the behemoth that is Penguin Random House, issued a warning that its profits were down 5% over last year, and the warning in turn...
View ArticleTuesday News: Tarantino sues Gawker, James Baldwin and Audre Lorde converse,...
Quentin Tarantino sues Gawker for circulating ‘Hateful Eight’ script – Well, this might be interesting. I say “might” because who knows if the case will ever see the inside of a courtroom. There’s a...
View ArticleTuesday News: Rabih Alameddine loves his characters, Adobe hates you, Tech...
Interview: Rabih Alameddine, Author Of ‘An Unnecessary Woman’ – Alameddine’s novel features a heroine who works in a bookstore in Beirut and translates her favorite stories into Arabic, never to be...
View ArticleWednesday News: The Reputation of tattoos, LibraryThing’s security breach,...
People always say the same thing about tattoos – File this under: everything old is new again. A brief history, not of tattooing, but of reactions to tattoos, from shocked to scandalized to excited. As...
View ArticleFriday News: A Tale of Sony and Kobo
Sony abandons North American eBook stores – You have have heard by now (perhaps by email, if you are a Sony Reader Store customer), that Sony is closing down its US and Canadian Reader Stores. However,...
View ArticleThursday News: Will Apple introduce the iWatch in September, OverDrive’s new...
Will Apple unveil the iWatch at the same time as the iPhone 6? – Gigaom picks up on the Re/Code story that claims a September 9th release of the new iWatch, along with the new Apple iPhone models....
View ArticleWednesday News: The Adobe Digital WTF Edition
Adobe’s e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe—in plain text [Updated] – In what has to be one of the very worst moves in Internet history, Adobe Digital Editions 4 now tracks every book...
View ArticleFriday News: Kobo nixes tablets, grammar rules you can forget, libraries and...
Kobo: tablets ‘no longer a focus’ – So Kobo President Michael Tamblyn has confirmed that Kobo is not going to be developing any more tablets, but will focus on the Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura and the new...
View ArticleFriday News: Adobe supposedly fixes ADE 4, Joan Didion Kickstarter campaign,...
Adobe Updates Digital Edition, Stops Sharing User Info With the Internet – Nate Hoffelder reports that Adobe has stopped sending data on the books you’re reading back to Adobe in plain text. Adobe...
View ArticleWednesday News: Twitter tinkers with timelines, Adobe clarifies views on...
If you don’t like algorithmic filters, you’re probably not going to like the future of Twitter – So it looks like Twitter is, indeed, starting to model itself a bit more after Facebook, at least with...
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