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ebook sites
(updated April 4, 04)
1. FictionWise,
multi formats one stop
shopping site, include non fiction and exclusive short fictions.
2. BlackMask,
the best free ebook site in several
formats.
3. PeanutPress, award winning ebook store
for PDA, friendly DRM solutions.
4. Execubook,
eSummaries that deliver wisdom. Perfect for PDA users.
5. eBookAd, many indies label are here
6.
Univ. of Virginia
Library, Free ebooks
7. FreeeLiterature dot com,
classics for free
8. Memoware, free documents from
volunteers.
9.
ESSPC, great place to
start your collection (Free)
10.The Online Book Page,
from U.Penn. new
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Recommended eBooks from my ebook shelf
(April 04)
(email me for 10%
off coupon)
1.
Don't Know Much About History
2.
Dirty Little Secrets
3.
Killing The Buddha
4.
The Get With the Program! Guide to Fast Food and Family Restaurants
5.
Flirt Coach
Pocket
PC eBooks
Bestseller List
(Jan-Mar 04)
1.
Star Trek Series
2.
Angels and Demons
3.
Holly Bible NIV ed.
4.
The
Da Vinci Code
5.
Deception Points
6.
Letters to Penthouse XIX
7.
Letters to Penthouse XVIII
8.
Resolutions
9.
7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom
10.
Against All Enemies
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12/18/2002
Here Comes the Sun
Dan Gillmor: Copyright verdict, new technology are reasons to hope
The past several days have brought good news on two fronts in the copyright war. An unjust prosecution has ended in acquittal, and some pro-freedom activists launched some useful new technology.
In a case that may have enormous implications, a federal jury in San Jose brought back a not guilty verdict against a Russian software company charged with violating copyright law. The company, ElcomSoft, had sold a tool that gave purchasers of electronic-book software more flexibility in how they could use e-books but which also broke the e-books' copy protection.
In theory, this law gives absolute control to the copyright holder, and the shaft to the customer and to society at large. The ability to quote freely from other people's work -- something you cannot do with a DVD, for example, without breaking the law -- has been a foundation of creative growth.
The DMCA also has been misused by companies to threaten researchers who wanted to publish information about flaws in products. But the ElcomSoft prosecution was a ratcheting up of the pressure -- another step toward an industry-government goal of banning any tools that even might be used to infringe on a copyright, no matter how many legal uses there might be for the same tools.
Fighting to overturn or change a bad law is a long and difficult process. Finding ways to bolster the flagging public domain takes innovation in other domains.
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