Hello, Amazon? You already know. My publisher and I prefer that DRM not be inflicted on The Solomon Scandals. Now here are similar thoughts from Simon Haynes, author of the Hal Spacejock series, the first book of which is a free download to entice you to purchase the others. Buying details for the o...

I hope TeleReaders will forgive the preponderance of Kindle stories this morning, but it is a pretty newsworthy event in the e-book world. (And besides, David has made two Kindle posts to my one, and I need to catch up!) Did you know that the expressions “the writing on the wall� and “days are...

"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...

I was thrilled to see Books on Board play up The Solomon Scandals, my suspense novel, on the home page and use a nonDRMed version of the ePub standard as the first format. Other leading formats will follow. Scandals is also on sale now in various formats at eReader.com, Fictionwise and the Kindle st...

During the TOC panel on the Rise of E-Books, we wanted to show people an original Rocket eBook. Frustratingly, that more or less slipped through the cracks, except for an all-too-quick look when people were leaving the room. So, for conference attendees and other readers new to e-books, here’s...

Hmm. Doesn’t Adobe Digital Editions–shown in a desktop incarnation–rely on Flash? If so, just what should we make of the news that Adobe is still struggling to bring Flash to the iPhone? Adobe and Apple are collaborating to get Flash there. But even Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen admit...

OverDrive rudely reminded us of the perils of DRM when it stopped providing Mobipocket books to Fictionwise. An old lesson hit many e-book-lovers. You can’t really own a DRMed book. You’re at the mercy of profit-driven business people—and not just at the store that sold you the tit...

Liza Daly is a software engineer and president of Threepress Consulting Inc., developing applications for publishing and education. Recent work includes online products for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Oxford University Press, and O’Reilly Media.  She is a frequent writer and sp...

Note: Also see Chris Meadows’ piece on ScrollMotion, submitted just before mine. - D.R. I don’t care if ScrollMotion is the easiest e-reader on earth to use on the iPhone and iPod  Touch, which it may or may not be. All I know is that ScrollMotion will treat iPhone/Touch books like ...

Apple once ran a classic TV commercial positioning the Mac against the evil Big Bro-ish types at IBM. But is Steve Jobs’ outfit playing BB now? It’s banned David Carnoy’s detective thriller, the very book about which I just wrote. Here’s yet one more argument for technologica...