11-04-2010, 06:08 AM | #16 |
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Good to have your company, Vacooley. You'll soon find many alternative legal sources for ePubs. And, of course, to strip DRM for conversion is pretty easy. There are instructions all over the web, but it's only borderline legal (no matter how morally justified) so we can't discuss it here. Good luck and best wishes. Neil
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11-04-2010, 08:16 AM | #17 |
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And echoing Neil, there are plenty of places to get ePub books with no DRM... just load 'em right up and read away. Bottom line: If you don't want to go through the big booksellers, you don't have to.
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11-04-2010, 12:32 PM | #18 |
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I've read on the B&N forum that if you notify them of the difference, B&N will often lower their price. I've not tried it though
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11-04-2010, 01:33 PM | #19 |
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Kinda reminds me of the "We'll beat the price of any competitor by 10%", which always brings up the question "so why don't you just put your price there to begin with?"
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11-04-2010, 02:40 PM | #20 | |
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They know a good percentage of folks won't go to the bother of sending in the request/rebate. |
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11-04-2010, 05:17 PM | #21 | |
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Could you give the title of the book that has such a difference in price between ebooks from Kindle and the nook? I haven't seen really any price difference between the two in quite some time. Not since Apple got into the business. |
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11-04-2010, 05:50 PM | #22 | |
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Well, okay, there's one bit of borderline on DRM circumvention. If you're prepared to prove that there is absolutely no version of the e-book that allows any form of read-aloud or other non-visual presentation, there's a long-standing exemption intended for use by the blind but not actually restricted to the blind (I presume because it's easier for sighted people to strip the DRM on behalf of the visually impaired). |
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11-04-2010, 06:10 PM | #23 |
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11-04-2010, 06:50 PM | #24 | |
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11-04-2010, 07:05 PM | #25 | |
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11-04-2010, 07:34 PM | #26 |
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11-05-2010, 07:10 AM | #27 |
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A book is its content just as a club is its membership and a church its congregation. If you are to define a book as 'paper pages between covers', then that rules out all other forms, clay tablets and scrolls, for instance, and a book would still be a book even if its pages were blank. I mentally refer to my reading device as the title of the work (the book) I'm currently reading. It's known today as my 'Skakespeare's Will'. 'Shakespeare's Will' is, without a doubt, a 'book'. Ask its author. Neil
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11-05-2010, 09:52 AM | #28 |
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True. As well as, if they do apply, most people forget about them and never notice if the check never comes. Which is why I very rarely buy anything requiring a mail-in rebate. Gotta be something I really want at a really good price.
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11-05-2010, 05:51 PM | #29 | |
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A "book" is an object. It's as simple as that. When you download an eBook, you're not procuring an object, you're downloading data. That data may make up the same CONTENT, but it is certainly not a book. When you download a collection of songs, do you try to call it a CD? |
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11-05-2010, 05:59 PM | #30 | |
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I don't say " I just read this wonderful "data" by XXX......nor do I say "I just read this wonderful "e-book" by XXX......I say "I just read this wonderful "book" by XXX......... Its a book, not data. And I don't download music at all. If I did, I'd call it 'music'. |
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