Unglue.it, the recently launched crowd-funding site that allows consumers to make pledges of payment to "unglue" ebooks, thus eliminating the copyright and DRM, has just been informed by Amazon that the retailer will no longer honor pledge payments for this kind of transaction. CEO Eric Hellman issued a statement today:“Amazon Payments has informed us that they will no … [Read more...] about Amazon to Halt Processing of Crowd-Funded eBook Access
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France to impose tablet tax
What if you are required to pay a tax to the government for a reason as trivial as owning a tablet PC? Well, that's exactly what the legislators at France are considering doing and will include all tablets with an internal memory greater than 40 GB. Strangely, Windows has been exempted from the new proposed tax regime - Private Copy tax - which government sources claim is due … [Read more...] about France to impose tablet tax