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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's a ludicrous argument, Jon  . One can buy MobiPocket format books - as you well know - with or without DRM - and there's no reason in the world to suppose that the CyBook will display a book without DRM in any different manner to the way it displays them with DRM. Derek can go to FictionWise and buy any of I don't know how many thousand books in MobiPocket format if he wants to see how it does with MobiPocket files. |
That's a ridiculous argument Harry. First, *most* of the current-release Fictionwise and Mobipocket ebooks *ARE* in Secure Mobipocket format. So only being able to read the non-secure versions would exclude the Cybook from a large market who *want* to be able read the latest ebooks, not just the older ones or the ones from the lower mid-list and back-list. Yes, I have plenty of ebooks I've run through BD using my Baen titles and I've purchased a couple of the titles offered by Fictionwise in Multiformat-choosing Mobi-and they read just fine. But the hot authors I *want* to read are all Secure Mobipocket, Secure MS Reader or secure PDF. Oops. Guess that makes me a second-class citizen.
Derek