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New on LLRX.com – Understanding the Limitations – and Maximizing the Value – of eBooks

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LLRX.com: Understanding the Limitations – and Maximizing the Value- of eBooks: The holiday season is here, and many signs suggest that thousands of people are finding themselves new owners of electronic book (“eBook”) readers. Whether it’s an Amazon Kindle, a Barnes & Noble Nook, a Sony Reader, or any of the less heavily advertised devices… Continue Reading

The eYouGuide now speaks 10 languages

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The eYouGuide, Europe’s first online tool giving consumers practical advice on their “digital rights” under EU law is now available in 10 languages. “The eYouGuide was launched in Strasbourg on 5 May 2009 (see IP/09/702). The guide provides information on a number of issues related to online activities, such as shopping online, networking, uploading and… Continue Reading

FTC Renews Call to Entertainment Industry to Curb Marketing of Violent Entertainment to Children

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News release: “Marketers of violent music, movies, and video games can do more to restrict the promotion of these products to children, according to the seventh in a series of Federal Trade Commission reports on marketing violent entertainment to children. The FTC’s report states that the music industry still has not adopted objective marketing standards… Continue Reading

New York Review of Books: Google and the New Digital Future

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Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search (GBS), Google and the New Digital Future, Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard “…The digitizing, open-access distribution, and preservation of orphan works could be done by a nonprofit organization such as the Internet Archive, a nonprofit group that was built as a… Continue Reading

BookServer is an open system to find, buy, or borrow e- books

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Internet Archive BookServer: “The widespread success of digital reading devices has proven that the world is ready to read books on screens. As the audience for digital books grows, we can evolve from an environment of single devices connected to single sources into a distributed system where readers can find books from sources across the… Continue Reading

NYT Op Ed – A Library to Last Forever

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Follow up to previous postings on the Google Book Settlement, this New York Times Op-Ed today: A Library to Last Forever, by Sergey Brin/Google: “Because books are such an important part of the world’s collective knowledge and cultural heritage, Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, first proposed that we digitize all books a decade ago,… Continue Reading

Survey: Two-Thirds of Americans Object to Online Tracking

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New York Times: “About two-thirds of Americans object to online tracking by advertisers — and that number rises once they learn the different ways marketers are following their online movements, according to a new survey from professors at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley.” Contrary to what marketers say, Americans Reject… Continue Reading