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Speculative fiction, the Earth’s nonrenewable resources

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Projecting inferences of realities into a past or a future is a device often used by writers to portray the ‘effects’ of prevailing circumstances or events. Meyer (Mike) Moldeven, a retired civilian logistics analyst for the U. S. Air Force, chose the distant future as the setting for his e-novel ‘The Universe-or Nothing.’ The work […]

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Second Annual World eBook Fair Starts July 4th

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Effective May 16: World eBook Fair Starts in 7 Weeks http://www.worldebookfair.com 787,000 Total eBook Files Will Be Listed [over 3/4 million] 2/3 Million Unique Free eBook + ~110,000 Commercial eBooks eBooks in over 100 Different Languages! Created by Contributions from 150+ eLibraries Around the World Last year 1,000 newspapers carried this story when 1/3 million […]

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Vizplex: Next Generation Electronic Ink Technology

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E Ink Corporation, the leading provider of electronic paper display (EPD) technology, today announced the launch of its next-generation electronic ink technology, offering significant improvements in performance and shipping under the new trade name VizplexTM Imaging Film. “E Ink continues to be at the forefront of the electronic paper revolution. This is a major improvement […]

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Digital Devices Star at IDPF’s Digital Book 2007

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While talks about cutting-edge smartphones dominated last year’s Digital Book Conference—the International Digital Publishing Forum’s annual e-publishing conference in New York—the focus of the morning session this year was market feedback on the progress of devices like the Sony Reader and the introduction of new ones, such as Telecom Italia’s pocket-sized Librofonio, which is expect […]

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Net Radio Megamonopoly

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As heard on “Media Matter” and “Media Minutes” on WILL-AM 580 1PM Sunday, May 6, 2007 New laws increasing royalty rates for small Internet Radio sites are scheduled to go into effect on June 15, effectively leaving the door open for mega-sites owned by the billion dollar corporations such as Clear Channel, and wiping out […]

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Greg Newby Podcast Interview At Sites Collide

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Tyrel McMahan interviews Dr. Greg Newby, CEO/Director of Project Gutenberg about the project, the website, and copyright issues. You can listen to the interview by clicking the link below; Sites Collide #3 Project Gutenberg – Dr. Greg Newby Sites Collide, May 2, 2007

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Britain’s slave trade records go online

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s slave trading past gets a human face on Friday as an ancestry-tracing Web site starts putting the personal histories of the victims online for the first time. The Web site, Ancestry.co.uk, posted 100,000 names of Barbados slaves registered in 1834 in the colony. By December the site will contain the names […]

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New Media Guideline: Those With The Gold…Rule!!!

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[This past Sunday – 22-April-2007] According to NPR it is the megacorp giant Time Warner who is the author of the current bill in Congress for raising the relative amount small publications pay to mail out their newspaper and magazines while reducing the relative amount paid by media giants. The expected result, more media supersaturation […]

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London Buzzing About Amazon eBook Reader

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The buzz on the London Book Fair floor included speculation on when Amazon will launch its own e-book reader as well as the increasing number of U.K. publishers that have signed on for Google’s Book Search. Amazon has been previewing its e-reader to publishers both in the U.S. and U.K.—HarperCollins UK CEO Victoria Barnsley mentioned […]

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Tolkien tips Potter from Amazon top spot

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In a dramatic seachange in book sales, the dead have risen to smite the hitherto all-conquering boy sorceror. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has, for the past 16 weeks, looked to be the invincible champion of the bestseller lists, despite being more than three months away from publication. But the wizardy whippersnapper hadn’t reckoned […]

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New York Times article mentioning PG

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Though I don’t read Finnish, Portuguese or Icelandic, it is of some comfort to know that hundreds of books in these languages are now stored on my computer. They are in good company. Just as I am not likely ever to read “Hattu Yksinaytoksinen Huvinaytelma” by Alfhild Agrell, so, too, will I probably never work […]

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