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More news from the guys that brought us DRM ...
by Marcello Perathoner 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

... because the consumers are dishonest. "Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced the second settlement in the music industry’s "pay-for-play" probe. Warner Music Group Corp., the third largest record company in the United States, has agreed to abandon the industry-wide practice of providing radio stations and their employees with financial incentives and promotional items in exchange for "airplay" for Warner’s recordings. [...] The financial benefits provided in exchange for airplay, also known as "payola," took several forms: • Direct bribes to radio programmers, including airfare, electronics, tickets to premier sporting events and concerts; • Payments to radio stations to cover operational expenses; • Radio contest giveaways for stations' listening audiences, including flyaways, concert tickets, iPods, gift certificates and gift cards; • Hiring independent promoters to act as conduits for illegal payments to radio stations; • Purchasing "spin programs" to artificially increase the airplay of particular recordings. The Assurance of Discontinuance summarizing the Attorney General's findings alleges that the illegal payoffs for airplay were designed to manipulate record charts, generate consumer interest in records and increase sales." -- http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2005/nov/nov22a_05.html In related news, RIAA president Cary Sherman congratulated Warner for its ethical behaviour in agreeing to stop bribing radio stations. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Re: [gutvol-d] [Press Release] OSoft Partners with OpenReader
by Joshua Hutchinson 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

----- Original Message ----- From: Gutenberg9443(a)aol.com > > You have made me very happy. My eBookwise Reader reads OEBFF and so does my > husband's, which is en route to us now. So apparently we are not going to have > to rush out a year from now and replace them. > > Thanks for the info. > > Anne Actually, Anne, if you can rush and buy ANY eBook in that format a year from now, I'll be mildly surprised. Not flabbergasted, but surprised. Josh

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Re: [gutvol-d] [Press Release] OSoft Partners with OpenReader
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

In a message dated 11/22/2005 9:07:19 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, lee(a)novomail.net writes: The OEBFF is a file format proposed by Garth Conboy and John Rivlin, now of eBook Technologies, which uses the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) to physically (well, conceptually) bundle OEBPS files together into a single file. I believe that the OEBFF is the file format used natively by the eBook Technologies ETI-1 and ETI-2 reading devices. Thus, OEBPS and OEBFF are not competing standards, but are, in fact, complementary technologies: the OEBPS describes one way of defining how multiple files can be combined to create a single digital publication, and the OEBFF describes one way of encapsulating those component files into a single file for subsequent transfer or use. You have made me very happy. My eBookwise Reader reads OEBFF and so does my husband's, which is en route to us now. So apparently we are not going to have to rush out a year from now and replace them. Thanks for the info. Anne

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Re: [gutvol-d] [Press Release] OSoft Partners with OpenReader
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

In a message dated 10/27/2005 2:30:15 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, jon(a)noring.name writes: Marcello asked: > Lee Passey wrote: >> the OpenReader format is likely to be a relatively minor variation >> on the existing OEBPS format. Please pardon my ignorance, but what is the difference between OEBFF and OEBPS? Or is this something that I probably can't understand even when it is explained? Anne Do you like to breathe? Then help save the trees! Put an ebook reader in YOUR life! Anne Wingate

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Re: [gutvol-d] Jpeg2000
by Joshua Hutchinson 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Well, it depends on how you define "useful" ... ie, how do you want to use them? Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "N Wolcott" <nwolcott(a)dsdial.net> To: "'Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion'" <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> Subject: [gutvol-d] Jpeg2000 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:17:16 -0500 > > What do we do with Jpeg2000 files to make them into something useful??? > > Norm Wolcott nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d

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re: beware what technoids with hidden agendas want you to assume
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

lee said: > Rarely is the alphabet alone sufficient to create an e-book. > Usually, to provide the maximum reading experience > a digital publication needs to include markup > suggesting how the text should be presented, and may > include non-textual items, such as illustrations or cover art. > Additionally, it is helpful if a digital publication contains > information _about_ the publication which is > technically not part of the publication itself; > this information is typically referred to as "metadata." > The author's identity, publication date, rights assertions and > even the Gutenberg boilerplate text are all examples of metadata. almost all of this can be contentious. (except the part about illustrations...) enough said. the proof is in the pudding. and, speaking of pudding, happy holidays! -bowerbird

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ebooksgratuit
by N Wolcott 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Can the masters at DP and PG investigate whether books at ebooksgratuit may be harvested?? I know that arrangements have been made with gallica and Canadiana so that all of their product is automatically "pre cleared". Ebooksgratuit has etexts of almost all of Jules Verne books in French from original PD cources, but they do not show the title page in their texts as they have been ocr'ed. Many of the books are obscure and they must have verified them before posting. They are already in DOC format and easy to transfer. any suggestions? Norm Wolcott nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu

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Re: [gutvol-d] ebooksgratuit
by Joshua Hutchinson 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Since there are already quite a few in the archive ... I'd say that someone already did. ie Title: L'île mystérieuse Author: Jules Verne Release Date: December 7, 2004 [EBook #14287] Language: French Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK L'ÎLE MYSTÉRIEUSE *** Produced by Ebooks libres et gratuits at http://www.ebooksgratuits.com Also: Why should someone else do this for you? if this was something you were interested in, why not check with them yourself? Why do the "masters" have to check it for you? JHutch ----- Original Message ----- From: "N Wolcott" <nwolcott(a)dsdial.net> To: "'Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion'" <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> Subject: [gutvol-d] ebooksgratuit Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:44:01 -0500 > > Can the masters at DP and PG investigate whether books at ebooksgratuit may be > harvested?? I know that arrangements have been made with gallica and Canadiana > so that all of their product is automatically "pre cleared". Ebooksgratuit has > etexts of almost all of Jules Verne books in French from original PD cources, > but they do not show the title page in their texts as they have been ocr'ed. > Many of the books are obscure and they must have verified them before posting. > They are already in DOC format and easy to transfer. > > any suggestions? > Norm Wolcott nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d

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PG Canada
by N Wolcott 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Did PG Canada ever get off the ground, and can books be submitted to them yet??? Likewise with PGEu, are they accepting books?? Is PG australia still functioning and able to accept books? Are there any other life+50 sites accepting etexts?? Norm Wolcott nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu

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CD/DVD ISO online demo
by Greg Newby 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Here's something fun to try: some of you have already heard about our custom "build a CD/DVD" program. This was developed primarily by Craig Stephenson, a student and ARSC employee where I work (the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks). It lets you make your own custom collection of Project Gutenberg content, and build an ISO file (suitable for burning a CD or DVD) for download. This week, through Thursday afternoon at 4:00 pm (PST), you can try this CD/DVD maker on a much faster system & network than I'm able to offer at the regular site. Visit this URL to try it: http://a163.112.sc05.org/pgiso This is basically the same software as is at the regular place, http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/pgiso But, it's on a much faster network, called "SciNet," the network at the annual Supercomputing conference (http://sc05.supercomputing.org) For these next few days, I'm running some experiments at the Supercomputing conference in the ARSC booth (#112), including this ISO maker. Please note that this is a temporary installation, so any ISOs or collections you make will not be incorporated back into the "main" site on snowy.arsc.alaska.edu. In other words, anything you make will need to be downloaded by 4:00 pm PST Thursday November 17. Feedback, as always, is welcome. -- Greg

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