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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. |
I absolutely agree with you. And there are plenty of public domain eBooks in prc format on here, and the navigation is exactly the same. The only difference is that the DRM product is encrypted and needs a key to unencrypt it. OK so it's too early to do a full review of the finished product, and I wouldn't buy a CyBook until this issue is resolved, but it must surely be possible to have some sensible comment on the CyBook instead of this one-sided relentlessly negative nitpicking.
I have to say that 'DRM nonsense' is a pretty good title for this thread. I'm sure I can't be the only person who is getting increasingly alienated from this forum by the endless ranting of the anti-DRM fanatics.
And there is surely an irony here that people seem to be quick to bash Bookeen a company that is basically a two men and a dog operation (as we'd say in Britain - it's not a derogatory term) in the name of consumer choice, and who are the main beneficiaries of all of the attacks on Bookeen? Why Sony which is the company which on its present record, and all of its past record, offers consumers the
least consumer choice of any of the eBook options on the market or likely to be coming to the market in the near future. Time to get a sense of perspective?