A couple of things related to ebooks. First, Palm Digital Media—the main ebookstore for the Palm Reader format ebooks, and the one that offers (offered?) up the tool for making your own ebooks for free—is now apparently eReader.com. What’s the difference? Well, eReader.com is entirely commercial, it seems; they offer their “eBook Studio” for a… Continue reading Ebook notes
Category: eBooks
Doctorow on DRM
So, I’m a little behind on this: Cory Doctorow‘s Microsoft Research DRM talk that he presented on June 17 and subsequently made available online for free. Very good. Though I do differ from this opinion he gives on ebooks: Today we hear ebook publishers tell each other and anyone who’ll listen that the barrier to… Continue reading Doctorow on DRM
Oregon Trail Diaries
Here’s a site containing links to the texts of diaries from the Oregon Trail. Interesting stuff; it would be worth collecting it and turning it into a Palm Reader ebook. (If I can find the time.)
Free? Palm Reader software
Is it just me, or did Palm Digital Media make it a whole lot harder to get the free version of their Palm Reader software? From their front page, there’s no mention of the free version anywhere, and I finally found it when clicking through the ad for the Pro version. …Oh. I just found… Continue reading Free? Palm Reader software
At least one new ebook
Lovecraft notwithstanding, I did finally get around to adding a new ebook, Anne’s House of Dreams (240KB .PDB file). It had been sitting in the queue for quite awhile now. The conversion went quick; I’d forgotten how quick, so that’s encouraging.
Lovecraft Copyright
Hmmm… I was all set to post up the H.P. Lovecraft ebooks tonight that were sent to me, but when double-checking the publication dates online I found this: Please note that Lovecraft’s fiction is still considered to be under copyright by Arkham House, and any texts presently available on the web without their consent are… Continue reading Lovecraft Copyright
Lovecraft Ebooks
Coming up in the next day or two, some H.P. Lovecraft Palm Reader ebooks, four of his short stories. The cool part of it is they were created by someone else who wanted to donate them for hosting, Leandro Liñares. Once I’ve verified that the stories in question are in the public domain, I’ll have… Continue reading Lovecraft Ebooks
Catching up on email
I’ve been terribly lax lately in responding to my emails that are ebook requests. I’m awfully sorry about that; I’m responding to some tonight, but if you sent me a request for an ebook and haven’t heard back from me, I apologize.
Bookish
Some neat book-related links tonight. First, Locus Online has published a 2003 recommended reading list of science fiction and fantasy novels, novellas, short stories, anthologies, etc. It looks like a good list, I noticed several items coinciding with my reading wishlist. Next, the big news: Cory Doctorow‘s new book, Eastern Standard Tribe, is out! And,… Continue reading Bookish
New Gutenberg Look
I don’t know why I didn’t point this out back when I noticed it, but Project Gutenberg has a new site and design—much cleaner, simpler and faster than the old site they had before. It’s a thousand times easier to find an ebook (no more multiple windows!). And did I mention it was fast?