Those of you interested in digital age gadgets might find interest in the following article of today’s New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/techn ... ?th&emc=th
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Still in today’s New York Times, you’ll find an article about selling writer’s work on the Web (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/techn ... ?th&emc=th). Here is from that page:“The cellphone industry looks a lot like the movie industry nowadays. Some highly anticipated phones — including the Palm Pre, an updated iPhone and new phones using the Android operating system from Google — have focused the industry’s efforts on the crucial months between Memorial Day and Labor Day.”
On the TechRepublic site at http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner ... ag=nl.e101, you’ll find an article about the growing popularity of the iPhone as a business device.“The Scribd Web site is the most popular of several document-sharing sites that take a YouTube-like approach to text, letting people upload sample chapters of books, research reports, homework, recipes and the like. Users can read documents on the site, embed them in other sites and share links over social networks and e-mail.
In the new Scribd store, authors or publishers will be able to set their own price for their work and keep 80 percent of the revenue. They can also decide whether to encode their documents with security software that will prevent their texts from being downloaded or freely copied.
Authors can choose to publish their documents in unprotected PDFs, which would make them readable on the Amazon Kindle and most other mobile devices. Scribd also says it is readying an application for the iPhone from Apple and will introduce it next month.”
Finally, and again from today’s New York Times, the teachers (and the students) among you might find interest in an article on how to find or buy homework help from the Web. At http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/educa ... nted=print
HTH.
Cheers,
Robert