While the Google Books settlement meanders on in one courtroom after another, Google also announced this week that they will be opening an e-book store of their own in 2010. Google Editions will compete with Amazon’s Kindle store and Barnes & Noble’s e-book offerings. That puts the big three all in play — all [...]
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I’ve been trying to keep up with the Google Books story because I think whatever happens will have a huge impact on both the publishing industry and on libraries. It’s not easy to do, though — every day there’s something in the news about it, but nothing huge has happened, really; these things are [...] I’m not entirely convinced about this whole ebook thing anyhow. I have, though, been playing around with Stanza on my iPhone. It’s a free app from Lexcycle (terrible name choice, for an IT company; it makes me think about exercising, not computers), and you can also download Stanza Desktop, and convert files on your [...] As I posted a few weeks ago and you have surely read about in the news (when you weren’t watching town hall meetings turn into bizarro-world, that is) Google Books negotiated a legal settlement recently that isn’t sitting well with a lot of folks. Apparently the Other Big Three are weighing in. From AP, [...] Here’s an admission for you: I have a hard time comprehending all of the details around what Google Books is up to. I gather they’re scanning everything (though not necessarily well — more on that in a sec) ever published, posting the out-of-copyright stuff, linking to snippets of the other stuff, and there are [...] |
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