• Ars has the best article I've yet seen on the recent ruling in the Apple ebook price fixing trial. Insight: Publishers get less under agency than they do under wholesale, but they're willing to accept it to keep control of pricing. Book publishing is a freaky business. This may not work out as planned for the publishers.
• Also from Ars: Weird search ( Read more... )

• From the "...And Then We Win" Department: Lulu is eliminating DRM on ebooks published through the site. (I was notified by email.)
• The Adobe CS2 download link everybody's talking about (see my entry for January 10, 2013) is still wide-open. If it was indeed a mistake, you'd think they would have fixed it by now. New suggestion: They're arguing about ( Read more... )

As I've said any number of times, I loathe DRM and have since I first understood what it was. My reasons are these:

• It makes content delivery systems fragile. DRM adds complexity to a system, and by its nature is constantly looking for a reason to cut people off. Jerry Pournelle made this point at least 30 years ago, when DRM was "copy protection" ( Read more... )

Slashdot aggregated an item indicating that when you play audio files in Vista, network performance slows down. Nobody's quite sure what's happening, nor (more crucially) whether it's a bug-i.e., accidental-or a consequence of a feature. If the latter, the feature is likely to be ( Read more... )