Like many households (but not Laura’s), mine got a surveillance device smart speaker over the holidays. I like using it to play my audiobooks, which…
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OPLIN 4cast #542: Ebooks vs print books
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A little more than three years ago, we posted a 4cast about speculation that ebook sales were ready to start into a decline. Current sales…
After we wrote a post about the woes of the e-reader industry a couple of weeks ago, we saw an article in the British press…
OPLIN 4cast #378: E-reader woes
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Libraries should probably be happy that they are not in the e-reader hardware business. While libraries have plenty of issues when it comes to ebooks…
It has been about a month since Dish Networks announced that they were closing the remaining 300 Blockbuster Video stores, starting a rash of articles…
OPLIN 4cast #334: Blind justice
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Digital information and copyright law often do not play well together, so much so that it looks like Congress may be ready to start a…
Nobody gets excited about copyright law (well, almost nobody), but over the years we’ve posted several items of copyright news in this blog, because many…
We’ve noted before in this blog that the BitTorrent protocol in itself is not evil, despite its reputation. The problem is the way people use what…
OPLIN 4Cast #305: Paying for it
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Businesses are usually started up to satisfy a demand, providing something people want but can’t get easily, and so they’re willing to pay a commercial…
Ebook reading devices are basically specialized computers, which means they can do more than just display words on a screen. If you use an ebook…