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eBook Culture

eBook Culture was a blog I started and ran from August to November 2004.

eBook Culture

November 2004

  • eBook Culture Acquired By Read/Write Web
  • Pulse Data Releases MyReader
  • My Interview with Tim O’Reilly
  • 3 Month Review of my eBooks Adventure
  • Blognovel: Le Spirale Fantastique
  • If eBooks were an Election Issue…

October 2004

  • That something extra…
  • Feed Burning
  • Plucker: From Green Screen to Colour Glory
  • 26 Benefits of Ebooks
  • Google Does Books
  • The Long Tail and how it applies to eBooks
  • Forget the e-Luddites

September 2004

  • eBooks – Another Medium Altogether
  • Gutenberg’s Children – the eBook Generation
  • The Number 1 Benefit of eBooks
  • Content Value
  • eBook Converters
  • eReading Introduction
  • Incoming
  • Web-based eBook Formats
  • eBooks Open Source Market
  • HTML of the eBook World
  • Multimedia eBooks: TK3
  • Plucker Review by Brad
  • Braille eBooks
  • Tablet for eBooks
  • OpenReader and Palm
  • Open Media and OpenReader
  • Ain’t buyin no DRM
  • eBook Community Mailing List

August 2004

  • iSilo eBook Reader and Converter
  • eBook sales up, despite DRM blues
  • Where to find eBooks
  • eBook Formats
  • Apple’s Strategy for DRM Content
  • eBooks for Open Media?
  • Similarities with 18th Century Lit
  • Sony Librie eBook reader
  • Social Isolates
  • Reading as Socialization
  • eBook Culture is here!
  • A New Kind of Literacy

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