Internet surpasses newspapers in percentage of American readers
Ars Technica reports that a new Pew survey shows that more Americans now get their news from the Internet than from newspapers. This puts the internet into a solid third-place position as sole provider...
View ArticleOpen Knowledge Foundation launches DataCatalogs.org to map the world’s open...
From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog yesterday: “We’re very pleased to announce an alpha version of datacatalogs.org, a website to help keep track of open data catalogues from around the world....
View ArticleFicbot’s websites for authors and readers
Teleread’s frequent contributor Joanna, aka Ficbot, has made her various ebook resources easier to find. She writes, “I have consolidated some of my on-line projects into a single handy website: the...
View Article“Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd Edition” to be published online only,...
Through an arrangement with Orion Publishing Group imprint Victor Gollancz, the third edition of the massive Encyclopedia—first published in 1979—will launch later this year in online digital format...
View ArticleApple’s new rules create a usability problem in ebook apps
If you’re one of those people who loads up your iOS device with lots of apps, you’ve possibly already experienced the problem Martin Taylor is having this morning: When I try to download an ebook from...
View Article“Is Vogue planning a 119-year digital archive?”
From the Los Angeles Times: Does Vogue magazine have a digital archive in the works — one would stretch all the way back to its original 1892 issue? Rumors say that’s exactly what the long-lived...
View ArticleIrish Senator proposes “pay to post” Internet
Using an iPhone in Ireland to connect to the Internet? Get your passport out. The legislature of Ireland, the Oireachtas Éireann, is exploring the topic of Internet safety and cyberbullying, and the...
View ArticleFollow that Story: TeleRead Slays the Blognix Beast!
Some of you may remember a post we ran last Wednesday, May 1, about a ridiculous website calling itself Blognix, and which had seemingly cloned TeleRead’s entire site—content, design and all. Well, I...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: Digital rights protection and the future of writing
3 Reasons Why Facebook Can’t Replace Your Author Website (Jane Friedman) I’ve occasionally been asked by authors at conferences: Why not just use Facebook? Isn’t that where everyone is spending their...
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