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Friday, April 02, 2004 |
Amazon worldwide bestsellers --
The big book index: Fat, fear and fortune have seized the world’s
imagination --
and Harii Pottaa (The Economist)
WHAT is the world’s biggest selling book? A simple question
with no simple answer. But Amazon, which has sold over 500m volumes since
it was founded nearly ten years ago, may come closer than anyone to the
right answer.
Every month, from now on, the online book retailer will draw together the
global sales of its six websites in America, Britain, Canada, France,
Germany and Japan to offer readers of The Economist a snapshot of the books
that really sell. Anyone who assumed that pulp thrillers sold in airports
and supermarkets will always top the list is in for a surprise with our
first list.
11:48:32 AM 
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>From BNA News:
GLOBAL REACTION TO CANADIAN FILE SHARING DECISION
Canadian media follows up on Wednesday's file sharing
decision with reaction from around the world as well as the
Canadian policy maker reaction. Canadian Heritage said it
would act if there is no appeal, noting that its job is to
try to protect the Canadian music industry.
11:48:28 AM
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Florida Court Sends RIAA Away (Wired News)
With this ruling, the RIAA must refile the lawsuits
individually, marking another setback in its campaign to sue swappers.
Judge David Baker of the U.S. District Court in Orlando is the second judge
to rule that the RIAA cannot group individuals together. Last month, a
Philadelphia judge made a similar ruling.
Beyond the circumstances that the defendants used the Fast Track
peer-to-peer network and that the defendants access the Internet through
Bright House, no other facts connect the defendants, Baker wrote.
10:48:19 AM
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NewsMap - News visualisation. Always interesting to se someone thinking of new inetrefaces. NewsMap presents the news headlines in the form of a map. Each headline fills a rectangle. The size of the rectangle depends on the number of related news-reports behind it. The colour of the rectangle depends of the recency. The news is categorized into seven categories, each with its own colour. It is also possible to select one of the... [Blueblog]
7:16:06 AM
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Tune-watch. This site did some useful things with the RSS-feeds of the iTunes MusicStore. It transformed them to a website. The site presents all kind of listings of the sales in the store: what are the most popular albums? the latest releases? the best folk songs? etc. Clicking on a song brings you to the music store. I guess Apple should have done this. It is a music search service for the iTunes Music Store. [inspiration... [Blueblog]
7:14:16 AM
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Post: Gmail in Detail. So there was a lot of buzz yesterday around Gmail: the gigabyte web-based email service announced by Google on April 1st. While other Google annoucements that day were met with an appropriate amount of skepticism (the Lunar Base for example), Gmail seems to have caught many a techie's imagination. The main question is: could it be real?... [OK/Cancel]
7:10:31 AM
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A Fine Year for April Foolery. Online pranksters provided plenty of fodder for the gullible this April Fool's Day, offering everything from automatic hunger eliminators to Web development jobs on the moon. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
7:07:13 AM
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Free E-Mail With a Steep Price?. Sure it costs nothing and offers 1 GB of storage, but Google's newly announced Gmail service gives some privacy advocates the creeps. A program would scan missives for keywords and serve ads based on the content. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News]
7:01:16 AM
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