Posts Tagged “ebooks”

Sanity check for publishers

By | May 10, 2010

In all the discussions about digital publishing, enhanced ebooks, and the future of publishing, let’s not forget that we publish books. We don’t design games, produce movies, or animate features. We publish books. By “books” I do not mean a bunch of printed pages between covers, what is technically known as a codex. That format [...]

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Book-banning in a digital age

By | July 22, 2009

Last week Amazon deleted copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm from some of their customers’ Kindles. This has happened before. In June, Amazon deleted some Ayn Rand titles. And it’s happened with Harry Potter titles as well. Amazon’s defense is pretty believable; they said the copies were pirated and that they were [...]

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