Some of you interested in the “Best of TOC” ebook have objected to having to go through the O’Reilly shopping cart process to get the free ebook. Point taken, and thank you for the feedback. Other readers are looking for a place to comment on the pieces; because these were all published blog posts, many already have rich comment threads of conversation. To address both concerns, here’s a full linked list of all the pieces we included in the Best of TOC ebook:
- Digital Rights Management Versus Enforcement
- Amazon Ups the Ante on Platform Lock-In
- Ebook Format Primer
- Ergonomics and Ebook Success
- Responsibly Assuaging Author Concerns About File Sharing and “Piracy”
- It’s Time to Accept an Ambiguous Digital Fate
- Storytelling 2.0: Alternate Reality Games
- Content Owners and Consumers Need Digital Quid Pro Quo
- The Pitfalls of Publishing’s E-Reader Guessing Game
- Treating Ebooks Like Software
- On Publishers and Software Development
- Ebooks and Print Books Are Not Mutually Exclusive
- POD Opens Door to Magazine Experiments and Customization
- Web Community Management Tips
- Reinventing the Book and Killing It are Separate Things
- Q&A with Developer Who Turns Ebooks into iPhone Applications
- Terry Goodkind Follows The Money
- Web Analytics Primer for Publishers
- A Unified Field Theory of Publishing in the Networked Era
- How Many Publishing CEOs Know What an API Is?
- Why You Should Care About XML
- Publisher as Brand?
- Regulating the Google Settlement
- Point-Counterpoint: On Digital Book DRM
- Point-Counterpoint: Digital Book DRM, the Least Worst Solution
- Interstitial Publishing: A New Market from Wasted Time
- The Once and Future Ebook: On Reading in the Digital Age
According to our ecommerce data, several hundred of you have “purchased” the free ebook. I’m thrilled there’s so much interest — this is definitely something we’ll be looking to do again with this and other conferences.