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Originally Posted by HarryT
I am a little puzzled, given this, to hear you say that the "hot authors you want to read" are all in DRM protected formats. If this is the case, why did NAEB specify a device without DRM?
BTW, forgive me if you're already aware of this, but Baen offer MobiPocket as a direct download option. No need to convert anything with BD.
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Harry,
Clearly you don't understand. *I* favor a bunch of authors - not just those in Baen's stables. Many of those other authors *ARE* offered in Secure Mobipocket format - but not in Sony's BBeB or Hanlin's WOL. NAEB wants the ebook reader to handle non-DRM'd ebooks in some common format other than PDF, TXT or HTML. Mobi's is nice. Baen even offers the webscription ebooks in Mobi - as you pointed out. But that's not good enough - for *ME*. I am, after all, a consumer of ebooks.
As for running my Baen ebooks through BD, well, I'm not encouraging people to run 'less-than-legal' PDF or HTML downloads through BD, but there are those who will. As will there be those who have other, legal, PDF, TXT or HTML ebooks on which they'd like to be able to use Mobi dictionary and text search functions and the like. So I'm killing two birds with one stone, so to speak. Checking up on the formatting of Mobi ebooks on the Cybook and discovering the ease of converting a, shall we say, less-than-perfectly-formatted TXT file into a Mobi ebook.
Oh wow! You know, I'll bet that's exactly what customers who buy a Cybook *might* want to do! (Not all of us can be geeks, nerds and EXTREMELY EARLY ADOPTERS.)
Really, I don't know why this is a hard set of concepts for you.
Derek