No Shelf Required

Is this fuel for the anti DRM fire or what?
Teleread.org - You really DON’T own your Amazon ebooks
Posted: 17 Jul 2009 06:43 AM PDT
Got this email from John Hagewood and it just had to be shared with you:
Weirdness in Kindle-land:
this morning I got an email from Amazon saying:
We’re writing to confirm that we […]

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If you are heading to ALA this week here is another eBook session that may be of interest. (check out the NISO/BISG eBook standards program too)
To be or not to be….DRM free
Saturday, July 11, 2009
10:30 - 12:00
Sorry, but I don’t have a location for this program.

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One of my favorite blogs is Teleread, an eBook blog started way back in 1992.  Yesterday I was able to speak with Paul Biba, Co-Editor of Teleread.  We had a great conversation about the blog, eBooks in the mass market, DRM and standards.  Check it out on the NSR interviews page.  Thanks Paul!

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A great debate between ePub and DRM is going on between Paul Biba and David Rothman at Teleread.  They both have posts supporting their arguments.  NSR will interview Paul Biba next week, so stayed tuned for more on this exciting discussion.

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From Teleread, author not listed:
FTC Digital Rights Management town hall meeting: summing up
Posted: 26 Mar 2009 09:39 AM PDT
 I have had a day to think about what I saw at the FTC’s town hall meeting on Digital Rights Management yesterday, and what it might mean for the future of DRM. The conference fell into […]

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npr’s All Things Considered program had a really nice piece on ebooks and DRM - the good and the bad.  You can listen or read it here.
In the story, authors are presented as anti-DRM, no restrictions, they want people to read their material not be locked out by restrictions.  In contrast, the Amazon Kindle VP […]

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The Once and Future e-book: On Reading in the Digital Age
A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books.  -by John Siracusa, Apple Technology Specialist at Ars Technica.
John writes about the history of ebook devices, corporate mis-steps, outmoded […]

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From the TeleRead blog:
OverDrive: ‘Much more content without DRM’ promised for libraries in ‘09
By David Rothman
Again and again I’ve asked the IDPF to please consider a logo for DRMless ePub books. OverDrive founder Steve Potash is also president of the IDPF, and recently he told Library Journal:
“OverDrive is the leader in bringing downloadable […]

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TeleRead, one of my favorite ebook blogs, just posted a “Primer on DRM.” It is a really good summary of DRM - Digital Rights Management.  What’s not included is information on how/why libraries use DRM.  For more information on that, check out a previous NoShelfRequired post on DRM.

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Just one of the findings from the Frankfurt Book Fair survey of over 1,000 industry professionals.  All of the survey results are in the press release.
Here’s a snippet about the challenges, which I find interesting:
Challenges facing the industry
70 per cent of respondents may feel ready for the digital challenge, but industry professionals nevertheless recognised the […]

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