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April 22, 2009

Video posted for ‘Survey of Current E-Readers’

O’Reilly has posted video from my session with Keith Fahlgren on e-reading devices.
Please enjoy my despair at the beginning as all the wireless-enabled readers interfere with the microphone.
It might be useful to follow along with the slides in the latter half of my talk, when the camera doesn’t show them.

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February 14, 2009

On the contentious subject of ebook pricing

I had meant to include this as a slide in my e-reader talk but didn’t have time.
I think we can all agree that this is a don’t.

(There’s a free sample though!)

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