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Submission + - Scribd Becomes DRM-Optional E-Bookstore

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Miracle Jones

on Monday May 18, 2009 @05:34PM

Miracle Jones writes: "In an effort to compete with Amazon and Google, the document-hosting website Scribd will now be letting writers and publishers sell documents that they upload. They will be offering an 80/20 profit-sharing deal in favor of writers, and will let writers charge whatever they want. Additionally, Scribd will not force any content control (although they will have a piracy database and bounce copyrighted scans) and will let writers choose to encrypt their books with DRM or not. This is big news for people in publishing, who have been seeking an alternative to Amazon for fear that Amazon is amassing too much power too quickly in this brand new marketplace, especially after Amazon's announcement last week that they will now be publishing books in addition to selling them."

Submission + - IBM beats Microsoft over the head with own code (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

bednarz

on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @08:36AM

bednarz writes: "IBM added a delicious twist on its new commitment to help OpenOffice.org battle Microsoft Office by donating code that was originally derived in part from a Microsoft-developed technology. IBM's iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for technology used to help the visually impaired interact with Open Document Format (ODF)-compliant applications and was developed in part using Microsoft Active Accessibility (MAA)."

Journal Journal: Reg says, Vista first look: Bugs and confusion

Journal by mennucc1 on Thursday February 15, 2007 @09:03AM

The Reg has a nice review of their attempt at installing and using Windows Vista; worth reading.

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