Book Ripper Doesn't Bother Publishers -- Yet
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Could the publishing industry get Napsterized? That was my first thought when I saw the marketing materials for the Atiz BookSnap, the first consumer device that enables you to "release the content" of your books by transforming the printed words into digital files that can be read on computers a...
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A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books.
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Germany's National Library is now fully licensed to duplicate copy protected electronic books and other digital media such as CDs and CD-ROMs. The object and scope of the agreement seems pretty limited, anyway.
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The idea behind BookCrossing.com is simple: You drop off a book in a public place, or pick up one someone else left behind.
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The bureau isn't rushing to fill in the blanks regarding its use of the "computer and internet protocol address verifier" spyware tool.
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If a financial portal falls in the woods, it doesn't make a cash register-ringing sound.
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A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.
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It's still not known who the culprit is nor how and when this person obtained the information.
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The book retailing superstore has new chapters worth telling.
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Google continues to fight its upcoming copyright infringement suit without support from others book-scanning sites. Reports say that Yahoo has rebuffed its rival's request for information on the smaller firm's efforts to create digital copies of books which may or my not still be in copyright.
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I've not made much of a secret of the fact that I've been working on a new product, and am getting close to offering it as a public pre-alpha thing for Mac users only.  It's fairly Flickr-centric, sucking photos down from Flickr in a variety of ways and pushing up photos in others. Like Radio 8 and Google Reader, it has the ability to maintain an output feed of stuff you want to pass on to friends and associates. As I was developing this I wished that Flickr had the ability to store simple text files, because I needed a place to put an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures on behalf of each user. Of course I used Amazon S3, but I had to implement my own lightweight identity system so that Juan couldn't accidentally or intentionally replace Alice's feed. If only every user had a place where they could store stuff that's net accessible so that once and for all we could stop inventing new places. I was inspired to write about this when I read an Uncov review of Pownce where they reminded me that they were reselling S3 storage at a big markup. What if the users had their own S3 storage that they paid for themselves?  Then it occurred to me to ask if people thought S3 could be an end-user thing. I'd like to find out, so if some non-technical users who have Amazon accounts would like to try setting up an S3 account, I'd be interested in hearing how it goes. Here's an idea of how you get started. 1. You must already have an Amazon account. Nothing special about it, if you buy shirts or books or stereo equipment from Amazon, you use the same account for S3 storage. Already that's pretty easy, millions of people have Amazon accounts, right? 2. Visit this page on Amazon, ignore all the stuff about objects and buckets. In the right margin is a big button that says "Sign up for this web service." Click the button. A very familiar page appears, asking you to sign into your Amazon account as if you were going to buy something (you are!). 3. From there, I'm not sure what you see, because I have already enabled my account. But the end result of signing up is that you get two strings with weird names: Your Access Key ID and Your Secret Access Key. Any software that would save a document in S3-space on your behalf would need these two strange strings. In return each document would have a URL just like any other document on the web. Nothing strange about that.  4. You could also use the space to store stuff using an FTP-like app that runs in Firefox called S3 Organizer. It's about as hard to use as the Mac Finder or the Windows Explorer, i.e. it's no challenge for a moderately geeky user. The cool thing about it is that you're able to share anything you upload into S3 space with anyone else. You can even use BitTorrent to access any file to save you bandwidth bills and distribute the load round the net. It's all very easy to do, imho. As a developer who has to pay for his users' storage needs I would very much like to see users learn how to use S3 to store their stuff, so I can focus on writing software and fixing bugs instead of paying to store your stuff.
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By Jennifer C. Yates, Associated Press  PITTSBURGH -- A few simple keystrokes soon may turn blather into books.
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By David P. Willis, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Jan. 31--LONG BRANCH -- There seems to be a calendar for just about any  interest.    Car enthusiasts. Dog owners. Yankees fans.    But Robert Hermansen never saw a calendar for people in his industry:  computers.
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Company will introduce the latest overhaul of its publishing suite on March 27, but is keeping many details under wraps until then.
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Over on the Rojo blog  Chris writes:  "Thanks very much to Steve Gillmor for alerting us to a bug in how we, and other aggregators, were parsing New York Times RSS feeds. In short, stories older than 7 days or so were linking to abstracts of the articles, not the full articles themselves. This is something we will fix. Steve speculated that perhaps the "Times doesn't want server-based aggregators such as Bloglines and Rojo to consistently allow permalink access beyond seven days." Fortunately we don't see any evidence of that and in fact believe NYT has done a great job in making their content available via RSS, particularly by including a specific "partner" parameter on the URL for RSS aggr ...
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The news that Google will digitize more than 15 million books and make them available online didnât dominate headlines all week, but it would have if editors had a longer view for historical impact.
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Review Does not attempt world domination, but