Creator of TeleRead and LibraryCity

Interview starts at 15:48

Everyone, I think, would be better off if we replaced DRM [Digital Rights Management] with either no “protection†at all, or else social DRM, which in this case means imprinting the readers’ identities at the starts of books. The advantage of this is that books would no longer be siloed. Nook books could be read on Kindle and vice versa. At any rate, I think DRM has been one of the major barriers.

News

“Amazon makes an offer to Hachette authorsâ€Â by Hayley Tsukayama in The Washington Post – July 8, 2014

“Authors Guild Weighs In on Amazon-Hachette Disputeâ€Â by Judith Rosen at Publishers Weekly – July 10, 2014

“Gatecrashing the Cozy Consensus on Amazonâ€Â by David Gaughran at Let’s Get Visible – July 6, 2014

“Amazon wants an exception from FAA drone restrictionsâ€Â by Brian Fung in The Washington Post – July 11, 2014

Tech Tip

How to upload photos from your iPhone to Amazon Cloud Drive Photos app on your iPhone

Interview David H. Rothman

“Information Access for Allâ€Â by David H. Rothman in Computerworld – July 6, 1992

The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman (Paperback, published in 1995)

The Solomon Scandals: A Novel by David H. Rothman (2009) – $2.99 on Kindle

David H. Rothman’s author page at Amazon.com

TeleRead: News & Views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics

LibraryCity

Digital Public Library of America

Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA)

“Cell Phone Book Clubs: A Way for Libraries to Promote Literacy, Technology, Family and Communityâ€Â by David H. Rothman at LibraryCity – July 7, 2014

Nextdoor.com

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope – 99 cents on Kindle

Content

101. Under the Dome – Behind the Scenes Season Premiere with Stephen King

Click here for lots of good deals on Kindle books for your summer reading pleasure.

Books suggested by listener Guven Witteveen (prices have gone up since sale mentioned on show):

   Reading Like a Writer (P.S.) by Francine Prose – $10.23 on Kindle

   The Writing Life by Annie Dillard – $9.78 on Kindle

   Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin – $3.99 on Kindle

   Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett – $9.78 on Kindle

   This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman – $8.81 on Kindle

“Amazon Announces Five Finalists in the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contestâ€Â – press release July 8, 2014

Click here to read excerpts of finalists’ books and vote. Voting ends July 18, 2014.

Humble Bundle SciFi Book Bundle

July Must-Reads selected by Amazon’s book editors

Next Week’s Guest

Linda Grant, author of the Kindle Single I Murdered My Library

Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named “Well, You Needn’t.” This version is “Ra-Monk” by Eval Manigat on the “Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive” CD by Public Transit Recording” CD.

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