Wowio has launched an awesome service of giving away copyrighted eBooks for free. They have somehow gathered the licenses to give away the eBooks to be downloaded ONLY in US.

You need to be registered for the service and you are permitted to download 3 books per day and at the max 30 books per month. Even though they do not have the best of the collection but it is growing and it will be interesting to see if they are able to open the service for the rest of the world.

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When the sixth Potter book was released J.K. Rowling did not permit any of the books to be published in electronic form, not even during the peak of the e-book craze a few years ago. Neil Blair, a lawyer with Rowling’s literary agency, would only say that “this has not been an area that we have sought to license” and did not comment directly on whether pirated e-books, a common phenomena for Potter titles, were hurting sales.

“We monitor the Internet and take appropriate action,” Blair said.

And as the seventh, and most probably the last, Potter book is being sold there seems to be no sign of any legal electronic version coming out. So for those who love to read there books on there computers will have to depend on pirated books to enjoy Potter. Many unauthorized version of HP 7 were released on BitTorrent before the original release and soon after the release of the book officially many Potter fans were found to buy the book from book stores but ‘NOT’ read it. Instead, they went to the next scanning device and started running their OCR software on little Potter.

And in a recent breakthrough in Bangalore (India) police has seized hundreds of pirated covers of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, a city police official said on Monday.

With all this in the run I am afraid if J.K.Rowling’s decision to not let official Potter eBooks to be sold will actually somehow help the Potter piracy. Still, once again the Potter fans should be rest assured that they will have to rely on pirated eBooks of Potter if they want to read the book in there computers. No legal eBook for you Harry!

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Continuing into my third story of the day all somehow related to Harry Potter, this one is about Harry Potter and the pirated ebook. The latest book, the last may be, in the Potter series “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows” is available for download in bittorrent.

Not one but many torrents of the novel contain of photographed pages of the book thus making it little hard to read. But something is always better than nothing. Once again I wont publish the link to avoid piracy problems but just to inform the fans its easy to search for it.

Go get it, pirated! Another piracy news eats up lots of dollars of someone who deserved it. Still I am sure J.K.Rowling’s bank account wont be affected that badly with this!

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I came across the And Still I Persist blog some time ago and it’s become a welcome addition to my aggregator, providing some great insights and opinions about the art and science of software development and IT. Bruce Webster, one of the three authors contributing to the blog, has crafted a very enjoyable series of in-depth posts titled The Art of ‘Ware, a treatise on software development based on the principles laid out in Sun Tzu’s Art of War. He’s just made a PDF version available for offline reading and I highly recommend it.

[via ZDnet]

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A popular resource kit that is released with each new version of the Microsoft Windows operating system is available for Vista. I am wondering why they were so late for the launch.

The official Windows Vista(TM) Resource Kit (Pro - Resource Kit) walks corporate users through the deployment, configuration and management of the operating system. The book dedicates more than 1,500 pages to in-depth technical guidance on automating deployment, implementing security enhancements, and troubleshooting for Vista, which was released to corporate users in November.

Also included are tips for administering group policy, files and folders, and programs; a networking section that covers such topics as configuration of Windows networking, connecting to remote networks and IPv6 deployment; a management section covering disks and storage, and device management; and maintenance tips for health and performance monitoring, assisting remote users, updating and patching, and client protection.

There are sections on Internet Explorer 7, Windows Firewall, and Windows Defender. The book includes more than 150 scripts to help automate administrative tasks and tools; and utilities to help troubleshoot, manage, and configure Vista.

The book is a collaboration among Microsoft’s Windows Vista team and authors Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt.

The retail price of Windows Vista Resource Kit is US$60, but a number of online retailers are selling it for $38.

Source: PCWorld

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