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Packt Pub does it right: kills DRM restrictions
I just received this welcoming e-mail from the guys from Packt Publishing:
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03-06-2009, 08:11 AM | #2 |
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excellent news ! it's great to see more and more publishers listening to their readers, and getting it right. i just hope the more generalist publishers will also follow this road soon. congratulations to Packt for being so forward-thinking.
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03-06-2009, 08:30 AM | #3 |
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hopefully the dominoes will now start to fall ....
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Packt has some cool IT books. Alex, what book(s) did you buy there?
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03-06-2009, 11:25 AM | #6 |
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I wasn't even aware of this publisher, and I'm seeing some books that are very attractive (and pertinent to my current projects at work). Now that they've been convinced to take off the DRM, wonder if they can be convinced to release the books in any format other than PDF. Of course, I probably should buy a book and see how successful I might be in shifting the format from PDF to MobiPocket or ePub.
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Elsi, there appears to be no DRM; however, the PDF content is branded to your name (on every page, see attachment). Not that it would personally bother me.
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03-06-2009, 02:02 PM | #8 |
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No DRM!
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03-06-2009, 02:03 PM | #9 |
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BTW: Manning and Pragmatic ebooks are DRM free PDF also. They too have the "Owner Branding" in them.
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Well, that's good news!
I just acquired my first digital reader, a Sony PRS-700 which I don't have in had yet as it's being shipped to me. However, I do have an iPod touch and with the recent Kindle for iPod, I bought a book from Amazon Kindle Store and now want to find a way to strip the dang file of the DRM. I want to transport the file to my PRS-700 to read it when it comes. DRM makes transferring files between one's own devices rather cumbersome. I own two laptops, an iPod touch, and soon a PRS-700. DRM is creating some havoc in allowing me to read the protected documents across these four devices. What a pain! |
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