eReader web site collapsing under the load!

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by cassidym

I just got an iPhone and one of the things I really like about it is the ability to now read books on it. I prefer my Sony for reading but it is too big to carry everywhere. But I've always got my cell phone handy and, now, will always have a book handy to read should I need it.

I understand the reasoning behind the phone/music/internet/reader thing. My daughter and her husband are so into this. But the only time I use my cell phone is to call her or the husband. And I still haven't gotten into the Itunes market. I am just constantly amazed at the swiftness of technology advancements. My laptop and Kindle are, to me, the neatest things (material) on the planet......and its time for a new laptop.

[jerryleejr]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

As much as I hate the whole "IPhone" idea, I"m loving that there were so many bookreaders out there......it can only mean a wider selection of books for us Kindle users as publishers realize that yes, Virginia, there really IS a need for e-book formats! And maybe it will change the minds of those authors who refuse to allow their books to be formatted.

I totally agree, And stop calling me Virginia!

JJ

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by jerryleejr

I totally agree, And stop calling me Virginia!

JJ

Virgie? Jinny?

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by cassidym

I just got an iPhone and one of the things I really like about it is the ability to now read books on it. I prefer my Sony for reading but it is too big to carry everywhere. But I've always got my cell phone handy and, now, will always have a book handy to read should I need it.

So, will you be double buying books? eReader books can not be read on the Sony. Or, will you be removing DRM and putting them on your Sony too?

Of course I am not baiting you to admit you will be breaking the DCMA... just more of a rhetorical question.

BOb

[joblack]

Originally Posted by HarryT

But it's not just a phone, Jon - it's a status symbol. Having an iPhone makes you irresistably attractive to members of the opposite sex!

No it doesn´t ...

[6charlong]

I'm dying to know how eReader works on the iPhone/iTouch. Do you dial manually into the Fictionwise site? or eReader.com? Or is dialing automated? Does Micropay work on Apple handhelds? How about downloading DRMed books? How do you select the books you want to buy, or do you buy them with your computer and then download to the iPhone? Can you connect the iPhone/iTouch to your PC and move books to it that way? What's reading like?

Has anyone found a review of eReader on the iPhone yet?

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by 6charlong

I'm dying to know how eReader works on the iPhone/iTouch. Do you dial manually into the Fictionwise site? or eReader.com? Or is dialing automated? Does Micropay work on Apple handhelds? How about downloading DRMed books? How do you select the books you want to buy, or do you buy them with your computer and then download to the iPhone? Can you connect the iPhone/iTouch to your PC and move books to it that way? What's reading like?

Has anyone found a review of eReader on the iPhone yet?

There's no dialing... it works over the internet/data connection... on the iPhone that could be the cell network or WiFi... on the iPod touch it is only WiFi.

You use the Safari web browser on the device to log into the eReader/Fictionwise store to buy the book you want. Once you buy it then it will show up in your bookshelf in the eReader app for download.

The current version doesn't allow you to move books/files from your PC to the device. But, that is supposed to come in a future version of the eReader app. You will need to run some app on your PC that the device connects to via WiFi to grab files. (I expect based on the iPod/iPhone API not giving apps access to local storage directly.)

BOb

[rmeister0]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

The current version doesn't allow you to move books/files from your PC to the device. But, that is supposed to come in a future version of the eReader app. You will need to run some app on your PC that the device connects to via WiFi to grab files. (I expect based on the iPod/iPhone API not giving apps access to local storage directly.)

I suspect it will be something along those lines. I picked up SplashID over the weekend, and it syncs over a network connection if both the app on the phone and the desktop are running at the same time.

In addition to sandboxing the local storage, it also looks like developers can't hook into a cable'd sync solution through the dock. I would not be surprised if Apple came up with some kind of 'conduit' scheme similar to what Palm uses, but I wouldn't expect it any time soon.

[Xenophon]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

So, will you be double buying books? eReader books can not be read on the Sony. Or, will you be removing DRM and putting them on your Sony too?

Of course I am not baiting you to admit you will be breaking the DCMA... just more of a rhetorical question.

BOb

Actually, there's a very respectable body of legal reasoning that says that removing DRM for personal use DOES NOT violate the DMCA. Writing or distributing the software that does the DRM-removal violates the DMCA. Telling someone else where to get such software or how to use it probably violates the DMCA. But simply using it (for personal use ONLY) does not violate the DMCA. Probably. (The law's not clear, and it hasn't yet been tested in court. So any statement of legality or illegality is only probable.)

Xenophon
The above is not legal advice. It's based on discussion with a variety of IP lawyers in a graduate seminar on digital copyright issues. Your mileage may vary.

[RWood]

Originally Posted by Barcey

I did not know that. I suppose that at a glance those clever females can tell the difference between an iPhone and an iPod Touch too.
....otherwise I could hold my iPod touch to my ear and have loud conversations with myself.

Barcey: I was in California a while back and there were two females at the next table in an outdoor cafe who it seemed together could not name more than 5 states in the US*; but, they could identify every pair of shoes that came along by designer, model, and year. They did the same for the clothing they wore and the cars that went by. Can they tell an iPhone from an iPod Touch? Every day of the week.

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* = They liked the eleven o'clock news better than the six o'clock news because eleven is twice as much as six and therefore you get twice as much news.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by RWood

* = They liked the eleven o'clock news better than the six o'clock news because eleven is twice as much as six and therefore you get twice as much news.

that's a joke right ? please tell me that's a joke.

[jerryleejr]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

that's a joke right ? please tell me that's a joke.

If it's not then I have been right all along 2+2 does equal November!

[Donnageddon]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Can you say "bandwidth limitations"?

I don't know how fat a pipe they connect to, but it obviously isn't fat enough.
______
Dennis

You mean the internets aren't a bunch of dump trucks?

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by Donnageddon

You mean the internets aren't a bunch of dump trucks?

You know, everyone makes fun of Sen. Stevens for those remarks. But, metaphorically he is pretty correct about it.

I'm pretty sure he knows it is not literally tubes!

BOb

[Donnageddon]

"an Internet [sic] was sent by my staff" - Sen. Stevens in the same anti-net neutrality "dump trucks verses tubes" speech.