“On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books”, amazon.com reports in its press release on 26 December 2009.
Commentary:
This could mean that online delivery foor books, after a long wait and a few false starts, might be accelerating much faster than for other media, as electronista suggests.
As long […]

A broad swath of American enterprise ranging from major software makers to motion picture and music companies are joining forces to
oppose a new international treaty that would make books more accessible to the blind.
On Monday, dozens of nations will meet in Geneva to consider adopting the WIPO Treaty for Sharing Accessible Formats of Copyrighted Works […]

Germanys Intelligentsia is involved in a continuous fight against everything that cuts publishers’ revenues, using authors’ and human rights as a fig leave. We’ve seen the “Hamburger Erklärung”, and now it is “Lettre International”. In its most recent edition, Uwe Jochum tries to make us believe that Open Acces (i.e. the right to freely access […]