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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down). copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.

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The Struggle for Book Access: Amazon (Blog Post #2)

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But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. Print-disabled people of the world shouldn't be surprised that Amazon isn't going out of its way to help them.

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eBooks #2: So you want to e-publish? Mechanics…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). Amazon has what’s called “ Kindle Direct Publishing &# – how you can self-publish your book on Amazon.

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The Struggle for Book Access (Blog Post #1)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’ve been watching with interest the legal controversy over the synthetic speech capability of the new version of the Amazon Kindle, such as the coverage on Boing-Boing entitled Author's Guild claims text-to-speech software is illegal. Tags: Kindle Kindle2 Authors Guild copyfight copyright blind amazon.com NFB. The ship has sailed.

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

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copyright law. They send Bookshare the same digital book files that they provide to Amazon, Apple or Barnes and Noble. Our breakthrough with Bookshare was to put our users in charge of the collection. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure.

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Thai Chickpea Almond Curry from Let Them Eat Vegan!

Have Fun - Do Good

Copyright © 2012. is attached to my Amazon Associates Account. Excerpted by arrangement with Da Capo Lifelong, a member of the Perseus Books Group. www.dacapopresscookbooks.com. Recipe photo by Hannah Kaminsky. Full disclosure: I received a review copy of Let Them Eat Vegan! Also, the link to Let Them Eat Vegan!

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

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Podcasting Hardware Olympus Digital Recorders $125-$200 on Amazon Samson Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder. About $270 on Amazon. 120 on Amazon Headphones. About $100 on Amazon. 42 on Amazon Skype Podcast Recording Software Skype [link] (Skype to Skype is free. About $270 on Amazon.com. Electro-Voice Microphone 635A.

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