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September 2001
Yahoo Shopping Hits E-Books
Anticipating an increasing demand in the so far lumbering e-books market, portal powerhouse
Yahoo launched a new e-books category for its Yahoo Shopping online commerce destination on
Wednesday, boasting titles from four major publishing houses.
3 Myths of the Copyright Debate
Copyright has turned into an emotionally charged issue in the last few years, leading to some frequently
adopted but untrue ideas about intellectual property.
August 2001
Sklyarov case shows business outweighs
First Amendment
Noted cryptographer Bruce Schneier has produced a damning critique of
the way the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was used to jail Russian
software researcher Dmitry Sklyarov.
July 2001
eBook Hacker Arrested
The arrest of Elcomsoft programmer Dmitry Sklyarov prompts angry reaction from the Net.
An eBook is Not a Book
A US court has ruled that authors whose contracts do not include e-publishing clauses are the legal
owners of their ebook rights.
Adobe and the eBook Pirates
The Russian software company that released a program to convert Adobe eBooks into plain PDF files
claims it had the best intentions, but that doesn't mean Adobe is going to let them continue to sell it.
Libraries Launch E-Book Programmes
Libraries slowly adopting ebooks into their collections, but the practice is not without some controversy.
Create Custom Books from Microsoft Press
You can choose from a list of 36 titles in the Microsoft Press library and select the chapters you want, then purchase those chapters for downloading on your computer or have them printed and bound into one custom book.
RosettaBooks and Random House Go to Court
The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding who owns the rights to previously printed works now published in ebook format. Ebook publisher RosettaBooks has been taken to court for copyright infringement by publisher Random House.
June 2001
Three eBook Revenue Streams for Periodicals Publishers
eBooks are now becoming an important revenue stream for periodical publishers just as printed books and special reports have been
important to the traditional periodicals world in the past.
>Feedback
for Independent eBook Awards
The Executive Producer of the Independent eBook Awards, Sunny Ross,
has made a call to eBook enthusiast for feedback
Asimov stories go electronic
Science fiction fans must be rejoicing with Fictionwise.com's announcement that it has secured the rights to several of Isaac Asimov's short works -- the releases are the first Asimov titles available in eBook format.
May 2001
eBooks Now Eligible for National Book Awards
National Book Foundation will consider eBook submissions along with traditionally printed books
in established award categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature.
More Science for Ebooks
NetLibrary, a provider of eBooks and
Internet-based content/collection management
services is partnering with Majors Scientific Books
to meet increased demand for eBooks in the
health sciences marketplace.
Libraries will expand collections with eBooks
Patrons of some of Chicago's public libraries soon will offer access to more than 1,600
titles via eBooks from netLibrary, a leading provider of electronic books
and Internet-based content services.
Rough Guides Launches Travel Guide
Ebooks
Rough Guides, a publisher of travel guides, has selected Texterity, a
provider of ebook conversion services, to create electronic books for the
Microsoft Reader.
Adobe Targets Higher
Education With Launch of eBook U
Adobe has recently launched Adobe eBook U, a joint project between Adobe and a select group
of higher education institutions to explore the use and impact of eBooks on
educational environments.
eBooks: Download Them, or Make Your Own!
PocketPC Magazine teaches you about the tools and tricks you need to create your own elegant eBooks
Ebrary To Provide Digital Reproductions of
Historical Documents
DSI Publishing Group, a division of Digital Scanning,
Inc., a provider of conversion and scanning
services, will make its collection of early American
history reproductions available online through
ebrary.com.
