E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible
...laws when he surreptitiously copied and read the mail of his customers in order to monitor their transactions.
Councilman, owner of a website selling rare and out-of-print books, offered book-dealer customers e-mail accounts through his site. But unknown to those customers, Councilman installed code......more...Saving Collectibles to the Macs
...orth of business this year. Sales have almost doubled every year.
The pair sell a range of Apple collectibles, from T-shirts, mugs and lapel pins, to rare items like a $1,000 Picasso dealer display lamp.
The prices are surprisingly high. Rare posters from Apple's Think Different campaign ?- featurin......more... E Is for E-Book Murder Mystery
...ines and artwork, launched May 22 and took in $10,000 in its first week.
Unlike most other genre stores that concentrate primarily on out-of-print or rare items -- which generally list their inventory on sources such as abebooks.com --Shocklines.com is one of the few to focus almost
all of its energ......more... A Footnote to E-Book History
...ional images that leave out key elements, including paper texture and graphical information.
The 3-D digital library will enhance these components of rare books and historic documents, giving readers the sense that they are actually handling the books, said Paul Jones, ibiblio.org director and super......more... See You in the Funny Web Pages
...ely well.
For years, the bad news had been very bad, said Scott McCloud, a cartoonist and the author of Understanding Comics. Comics stores became so rare that, in certain regions, comics fans were simply out of luck. In a climate like that, comics artists are out of luck, too.
But the current techn......more... E-Books Out of Print Already?
...ber of exhibitors was way down, from 120 in 2000 to 80 this year.
Last year, all anybody talked about was e-publishing. This year, the subject was as rare as an out-of-print book.
That's not to say there's apathy about the Internet, e-publishing or e-books. There are just more questions than answers......more... Out of Print, But Into Digital
... see them.
Warnock, who co-founded Adobe Systems in 1982, is a leading technologist, innovator and publishing icon who also happens to avidly collect rare books.
The digital antiquarian began his collection of rarities when he first purchased a 1570 first English printing of Euclid's Elements at an ......more... Sex Author Has a Bright Idea
...umber of books their publisher previously sold.
Major book club marketer Book Span has agreed to purchase her e-book directly. Observers say that's a rare feat for any self-published author.
Although she's investing a chunk of her own savings to publish the e-book, Bright believes that it's not a ri......more... TiVo Tightens Its Belt
... remains on target with industry analysts' consensus estimate, it said.
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Amazon, Bibliofind join hands: Bibliofind, an online source for finding rare and out-of-print books, said it will join forces with Amazon, though it has pledged not to share customer information with them.
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