01-04-2013, 11:01 PM | #31 | |
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As for the world of book DRM, format converting, etc, I think you'd be surprised to find how little people dig into stuff. For example, my friend vaguely knows that things can be done, but won't even consider loading a public-domain book I sent her into her Kindle. There are people who will bump up against the limitations and just shrug and decide that what they have works good enough. There will be the few that take the plunge, those who want to get the most out of their reader and their library. Here we are, after all. It's something of a hobby for us, but we're not normal. |
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01-04-2013, 11:09 PM | #32 |
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01-05-2013, 07:48 AM | #33 | |
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Have you tried suggesting she forward the email to her Kindle's free email account? That will get the book into her Personal Documents area without hooking up to a PC. |
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01-05-2013, 02:15 PM | #34 |
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And mailing to an e-mail account also makes whispersync work, which sideloading won't do.
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01-05-2013, 02:51 PM | #35 | |
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01-05-2013, 05:55 PM | #36 | |
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01-06-2013, 11:11 AM | #37 | |
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As for the books, I agree, lots of people are reluctant, just as they used to be in the nineties with regard to using the PC. But if you just show them once how it works (like mailing the book and instructions how to side load it into ereader) they do become interested...it takes time, but I do think there are more and more ereader using people who are becoming interested in DRM policy its restrictions... |
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01-07-2013, 08:26 AM | #38 |
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01-07-2013, 08:41 AM | #39 |
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KF8 is essentially no better then ePub. Publishers are not going to want to create an eBook in ePub and then have to create one in KF8. They will create one in ePub and use that as the source for the KF8/Mobi versions.
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I didn't say it was "better than ePub"; I said that it basically was "ePub3 in a wrapper". That's the whole point of it - that publishers do just have to create the ePub - Amazon's "Kindlegen" tool puts it into the KF8 wrapper.
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