02-13-2010, 10:09 AM | #1 | |
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HTC Touch Phones to get Adobe Digital Editions
As spotted by Nate the great, from WM Experts: HTC gets in the e-Book Reader business with new Manila 2.5.
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02-13-2010, 10:24 AM | #2 |
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02-13-2010, 12:09 PM | #3 |
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Very! There's currently no ADE implementation available for mobile phones. I'd love to have such a thing. I don't understand the "purchased by Boarders" bit. though. Boarders of what?
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02-13-2010, 12:11 PM | #4 |
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That'd be cool. I'm looking at HTC for my next phone, but that won't be til October. Gives me time to see what happens with this.
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02-13-2010, 12:13 PM | #5 |
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I've been looking at grabbing the HTC Droid from Verizon, so this should be very interesting. Kudos for finding it!
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02-13-2010, 01:14 PM | #6 |
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Anyone interested in HTC phones particularly with large screens should investigate the HTC HD 2 coming this Spring with expanded RAM and GSM 3G capabilities. The older versions might not be able to upgrade to Windows Mobile 7, have no 3G capability, and this one apparently will. According to all reports, it will have no competitors for large screen/resolution. It will be available through T-Mobile or direct purchase not tied to any telephone plan.
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02-13-2010, 06:08 PM | #7 |
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This should be Borders. Their strategy of not producing their own ebook reader may be paying off, see Borders CEO nixes idea of own e-reader.
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03-15-2010, 12:56 PM | #8 |
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I've presently got my eye on the HTC Touch Pro 2, planning to upgrade in mid-April. I'm especially looking forward to finding out which readers (and formats) I can use on the phone, to replace my WinOS PDA... I'm hoping to get ePub and Mobi on there, at least.
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03-16-2010, 12:07 AM | #10 |
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What, what? So those of us with other makes of WM phones are still being left out in the cold?
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I am sure of that. Actually I remember reading for a workaround not integrating it into Sense UI. |
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03-16-2010, 01:17 AM | #12 |
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This is a function of how Adobe licenses its Reader technology. In the old days, Adobe would have produced their own reader apps for WinMobile, Android, iPhone, etcetera. These would have been free and widely available, because Adobe makes money every time you buy and download an Adobe ebook. Under the new Adobe approach, vendors get to pay money to Adobe to develop their own Reader and then Adobe gets to make money from all the ebooks that are bought for that Reader. It is a wonderful business to have the monopoly on ePub DRM. This means that phone makers like HTC try to lock you in to one particular type of DRM and one particular store front, and mobile providers, like T-Mobile (with B&N Reader bundled with its HD2), try to lock you into another.
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03-16-2010, 06:29 AM | #13 |
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Of course for those who want to avoid the whole DRM thing, you can use Freda to read DRM-free epubs. Gutenberg, Feedbooks, Google Books and many other sites provide plenty of those.
And (though I am not sure how much detail it is appropriate to go to in this forum), it is technically a fairly straightforward matter to remove DRM-protection from an Adobe Digital Editions ebook, giving you an epub that can be read with any e-reader program. Google will lead you to more details here, particularly if you remember that Adobe's content-protection system is called ADEPT, but some people think it to be INEPT. Jim |
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Hmmmmmmmm! Thanks.
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