Okay, so we already knew that Pubget is pretty neat and, for the organizations who can implement it, it speeds up the process of getting the full text PDF to the user. Pubget’s head developer, Ian Connor, keeps me updated on new developments. I was delighted to hear that Pubget now offers RSS ...

In their zeal, our anti-spam Dobermanns sometimes gobble up valuable comments from TeleRead community members, so please e-mail us yours if they don’t show up. Often we can retrieve ‘em from the Dobes’ stomachs. Sometimes the server may just burp.That’s what apparently happen...

Netbooks are okay for reading e-books, but tablets would be even better. But what will you type with? One Laptop Per Child solved that problem with a convertible laptop that you can also fold into a tablet. How about a different approach, though? Suppose you could simply detach the keyboard and kick...

As a reader who wants to own e-books for real, I’ve had reason aplenty to loathe DRM. Now, as a first novelist, I have even more justification. The e-bookers at Amazon insist that books in its Mobipocket format be distributed with DRM even when publishers object. And that’s hitting Twili...

Strange, isn’t it? Publishers don’t want Amazon to boss ‘em around on such issues as price—and yet they’re letting Amazon use DRM to lock in customers. This is hardly news to TeleRead readers. But it’s good to see Techdirt, itself no stranger to this issue, note t...

"Laura Bush says her husband is meeting the neighbors, making trips to the hardware store, and catching up on some reading via a Kindle. His latest read is a novel given to him for Christmas by former Vice President Dick Cheney." - CNN. The TeleRead take: So when is President Obama, the hi...

DRM is tough on anyone who wants to own books—not just lease them in effect. Will Company X exist a few decades from now? Even Amazon isn’t necessarily for eternity. I say this regardless of any visions that Jeff Bezos, the outer-space entrepreneur, may have of Kindle 15s in hotel rooms ...

"Unless Amazon embraces open e-book standards like ‘epub,’ which allow readers to read books on a variety of devices, the Kindle will be gone within two or three years." - Tim O’Reily in Why Kindle should be an open book, in Forbes. The TeleRead take: It’s hard to t...

E-book hater Nigel Farndale is at least nice enough to be amusing in his rant—both wittingly and unwittingly. Headline in the Telegraph is The next book after the e-book is the ex-book: E-books will kill books, just as the iPod has killed music… Let an anonymous editor step out and share...

BooksOnBoard—not just Fictionwise and others—now offers an e-book store for fans of the Stanza e-reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a cinch to reach BooksOnBoard on an iPhone orTouch if you’ve already installed Stanza. Just fire up Stanza, go to the Onlne Catalog, the...