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Web curation for January 31st 2010

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for January 31st 2010

  • Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider’s guide to the fight – Charlie’s Diary -
    (Apologies for the formatting; I’m typing this on a netbook with a tiny keyboard.)
    Last Friday, Amazon.com unilaterally pulled most or all of Macmillan’s books from their online store. (You can still find them via afilliates or second-hand stores, but Amazon themselves won’t sell them to you. Note that this only affects me via my Merchant Princes books — published by Tor, a Macmillan subsidiary — in the US Amazon store. My Ace titles are safe … for now.)
    This whole mess is basically about du..   show all text
    timoreilly: Fabulous analysis of the $AMZN/$AAPL/Macmillan #ebook fight http://bit.ly/aNgXaN Great debate in the comments too. #kindle #ipad #toc
  • Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs | Epicenter | Wired.com -
    After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes.
    This time, the big topics included Google and Adobe — no surprises there. Google recently unveiled its own Android-powered handset, the Nexus One, whose release Jan. 5 prompted Jobs to perhaps over-rea..   show all text
    timepilot: Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Jobs http://ff.im/-f9ghs
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