News – U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin rejects the amended Google Books Settlement. A stunned Google plans its next move. Click here to download or read a PDF of the Judge’s decision. The Association of American University Presses has an excellent overview of the issues. Click here for Amazon’s objection to the original settlement. Ken Auletta of The New Yorker opines on what’s next in a PBS News Hour interview. Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, who will be my guest next week, writes an op-ed in The New York Times outlining an alternative vision for a Digital Public Library.
Tech Tip – How to make the terrific Kindle app Notepad even easier to use with your computer. Try this Kindle-friendly language translator: Kindlefish. Thanks to The Kindle Reader for the tweet on this!
Interview (begins at 17:28) – Susan Glasser, editor in chief of Foreign Policy Magazine, tells how FP managed to create an impressive e-book in about a week, starting on the very day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned. The book is titled Revolution in the Arab World: Tunisia, Egypt, and the Unmaking of an Era. Click here for the Kindle edition, available for $4.99 with a free update expected next month. I see they just added a Nook version, too. I spoke with Susan by Skype and phone in Washington, D.C. on March 21, 2011. Click here to subscribe to FP’s Zinio subscription on the iPad. Sorry, no Kindle subscription yet, but coming sometime in the future.
Content – Audible audio books can now be downloaded to your Kindle directly over a WiFi network. I sampled The Paris Wife: A Novel by Paula McLain, which sounds wonderful.
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Click here to purchase my niece Fran Betlyon‘s new demo CD featuring “Antoinette Savage,” the song I used for this week’s outro. Follow her on Twitter.
E-Books for Troops , which has distributed 65 new and used Kindles to troops so far this year, will be glad to accept your donated Kindle 2 and send it to a U.S. Soldier on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. Click here for the Facebook page.
The Edge of the Road podcast, all about the gadget on wheels formerly known as your car, has a new episode up, and you can now subscribe to it at the iTunes Store.
Late-Breaking Contest Announcement: Whoever becomes the 1,000th person to like this podcast’s Facebook page is going to win an “I Love Paris” T-shirt, compliments of loyal listener Jean Remple.
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