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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The original Blackmask DVD should have all of the formats in which it issued books. That didn't include the Sony Reader, so conversion would be required in any case.
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You're right, looks like it's LIT and HTML.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The music industry is still learning the lesson.
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Definitely agree there.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I suspect the book industry has a different set of motives. Someone on another forum a while back was railing about the fact that any comic book was available on the net in high quality scanned images the day after release, and he could help identify the pirates and who should he talk to to Do Something about it? The basic answer, from folks who should know, was "Nobody. Marvel and DC don't care that the books are scanned and on the net immediately. That's not where they make their money. They make their money licensing the characters to the movies."
I think that may be Conde Nast's motive. They aren't interested in re-issuing the titles as paper or ebooks. They just want to make sure the rights are nailed down and they get a fee if anyone decides to do a Doc Savage or Shadow movie or TV production.
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Dennis
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That's a shame that they don't just release them on ebook format also.
Thanks for the input; just getting into the ebook world with my PRS-505 on its way (stupid CDW shipped it JUST so it'd miss my trip next week). Been going out and downloading all the books I can find that I'm interested in. I think have enough books to start reading now and not stop until the PRS-50000000005 comes out (that's the one that beams the story directly into your frontal lobe and you live it in first person).