For those of you who don’t know – and there’s no reason, perhaps, that you should – DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and it is a technology by which content distributors (record companies, for the most part) attempt to control how a customer experiences their product. Now, audiobooks. The starting pistol for Internet-distributed audiobooks [...]
First off, this article by science fiction author Cory Doctorow1 in the Guardian shouldn’t be called ‘Authors have lost the plot in Amazon Kindle battle’. Pressure is coming from the Authors’ Guild and from publishers. Both might claim to represent authors, but whether they do or not is debatable. Now, I happen to disagree with [...]
It is my Web 2.0 dream to create a real-time representation of writing a novel1. I’d like a video, perhaps, that shows the letters appearing and disappearing. The tap of a stone mason’s hammer could accompany each new letter; a squeaky sound a deletion. Once the novel is represented in this way, the film could [...]