Yet more developments in digital publishing: Michael Stackpole has a great post about protecting yourself from having publishers just sit on your e-pub rights, and clauses you should have in your contract to prevent that, and another interesting one on the concept of measuring books by 'hours of reading pleasure (for the average reader)' rather than page-count, heft, size or other measurements better left to print-media.

In a smilar vein, Steve Saus has yet more comments on DRM and the problems with creating non-portable products that arguably should be portable. I fully agree with his sentiments - I see the format locking nonsense at the moment as equivilent to only being able to play my DVDs in a Sony DVD player - if I buy an LG player, or Sony changes their format, all my DVDs will stop working. That does not, in any way, stop me from pirating them should I choose to - in fact, it encourages piracy, because I'm certainly not going to go and re-buy my DVD collection just because my old DVD player wore out and I needed to buy a new one. Open-format is better for the industry, for readers, for authors and for publishers - hopefully common sense will prevail in time.

And finally - an upclose and personal comparison of the kindle screen versus the iPad - and you'd be surprised which one comes out second place.

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