Protect Your E-book Files!

Posted on: 04 January, 2002

Author: Wayne Perkins

Title: Protect Your E-books ... Failsafe System for ... Your Fame and ... years ago I was giving my first E-book keynote speech before the Arizona Book ... ... Title: Protect Your E-books Files!Perkins Failsafe System for Protecting Your Fame and FortuneThree years ago I was giving my first E-book keynote speech before the Arizona Book Publishing Association, when one of the esteemed publisher members asked me a very pointed question."What happens if someone steals your file and sells it or gives it away all over the Internet?"Until I was asked that question I thought I was Sutter striking gold...

An Ambarrassment of Riches

Posted on: 19 December, 2001

Author: Sam Vaknin

... The Internet is too rich. Even powerful and ... search engines, such as Google, return a lot of trash, dead ends, and Error 404's in response to the most ... qu http://www.doi.org/ The Internet is too rich. Even powerful and sophisticated search engines, such as Google, return a lot of trash, dead ends, and Error 404's in response to the most well-defined query, Boolean operators and all. Directories created by human editors - such as Yahoo! or the Open Directory Project - are often overwhelmed by the amount of material out there. Like the legendary blob, the Internet is...

Audio and E-book Opportunties

Posted on: 19 December, 2001

I joined a ... Writers' Group a few weeks ago, and the email ... of those members is quite ... Browsing and skimming them last night Icame to one where a writer who has vision tr I joined a Christian Writers' Group a few weeks ago, and the email exchanges of those members is quite exhilarating. Browsing and skimming them last night Icame to one where a writer who has vision trouble andcan't read regular print books challenged the others to produce more e-books.E-books are read on the computer, and the greatestthing about them, as I've discovered myself, is that...

The Kidnapping of Content

Posted on: 19 December, 2001

Author: Sam Vaknin

http://www.plagiarism.org and http://www.Turnitin.comLatin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to kidnap" - most commonly, t... http://www.plagiarism.org and http://www.Turnitin.comLatin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to kidnap" - most commonly, to misappropriate content and wrongly attribute it to oneself. It is a close kin of piracy. But while the software or content pirate does not bother to hide or alter the identity of the content's creator or the software's author - the plagiarist does. Plagiarism is, therefore,...

Invasion of the Amazons

Posted on: 19 December, 2001

Author: Sam Vaknin

The last few months have ... a ... in tech stocks coupled with a frantic ... of the web and of every player in it (as far as content is ... This effort is three ... The last few months have witnessed a bloodbath in tech stocks coupled with a frantic re-definition of the web and of every player in it (as far as content is concerned). This effort is three pronged:Some companies are gambling on content distribution and the possession of the attendant digital infrastructure. MightyWords, for example, stealthily transformed itself from a "free-for-all-everyone-welcome" e-publisher to a distribution channel...

The Miraculous Conversion

Posted on: 19 December, 2001

Author: Sam Vaknin

... recent ... among online content peddlers and digital media ... can be traced to two deadly sins. The first was to assume that traffic equals sales. In other http://www.ideavirus.comThe recent bloodbath among online content peddlers and digital media proselytisers can be traced to two deadly sins. The first was to assume that traffic equals sales. In other words, that a miraculous conversion will spontaneously occur among the hordes of visitors to a web site. It was taken as an article of faith that a certain percentage of this mass will inevitably and nigh hypnotically reach for their bulging pocketbooks...

The Disintermediation of Content

Posted on: 19 December, 2001

Author: Sam Vaknin

Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past?In one word: disintermediationThe gradual removal of layers of content brokering and intermediation - mainly ... Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past?In one word: disintermediationThe gradual removal of layers of content brokering and intermediation - mainly in manufacturing marketing - is the continuation of a long term trend. Consider music for instance. Streaming audio on the internet ("soft radio"), or downloadable MP3 files may render the CD obsolete - but they were preceded by radio music broadcasts....

Jamaican Overdrive - LDC's and LCD's

Posted on: 19 December, 2001

Author: Sam Vaknin

... - an ... software ... and ... ... leader - has just expanded an e-book ... centre by adding 200 e-book editors. This happened in Montego Bay, Jamaica OverDrive - an e-commerce, software conversion and e-publishing applications leader - has just expanded an e-book technology centre by adding 200 e-book editors. This happened in Montego Bay, Jamaica - one of the less privileged spots on earth. The centre now provides a vertical e-publishing service - from manuscript editing to conversion to Quark (for POD), Adobe, and MS Reader ebook formats. Thus, it is not confined to the classic sweatshop...

The Internet and the Library

Posted on: 19 December, 2001

Author: Sam Vaknin

"In this digital age, the ... of ... works are at the center of a global ... ... that casts them as villains simply for doing their job: letting people borrow books for free "In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center of a global copyright controversy that casts them as villains simply for doing their job: letting people borrow books for free." (ZDNet quoted by "Publisher's Lunch on July 13, 2001) It is amazing that the traditional archivists of human knowledge - the libraries - failed so spectacularly to ride the tiger of the...

E(merging) Books

Posted on: 19 December, 2001

Author: Sam Vaknin

A novel ... through ... of the ... format of the book is ... Consider the now defunct ... It used to sell its book ... software mainly to travel age A novel re-definition through experimentation of the classical format of the book is emerging. Consider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly to travel agents - but such software is likely to conquer other niches (such as the legal and medical professions). It allows users to select bits and pieces from a library of e-books, combine them into a totally new tome and...