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Originally Posted by Ploni Almoni
I consider myself an avid reader and am very happy with my 650 (my 2nd, 1st being a 300).
I torrent most of my books, . . .
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Yes, welcome to the forum, but
please to not discuss outright piracy on this forum. I have noticed that MobileRead has a enlightened policy about discussions regarding DRM issues, where those issues prevent perfectly legitimate 'fair use' of your legally purchased book (like the example of transferring your purchased Kindle Book to a Sony reader).
I would not like to see the policy on discussions regarding these issues become become more restrictive, which they inevitably will if discussions of totally indefensible practices like outright piracy are allowed.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
They aren't available legally for any reader, because J. K. Rowling refused to license ebook rights. I've seen hints she might be coming around, and authorized editions might appear.
Dennis
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Yes, I was aware of this. I was just poking a little fun at the Amazon groupies who claim that EVERYTHING is available on Kindle.
I saw an interview with Rowling, and sadly, she seems to be the kind of person that, no matter how many millions or billions her books generate in sales, she will always be insecure and fixated on money. Doesn't matter if you are a billionaire if you are still 'po white trash' in your own mind.
My guess is that when she first started using a word processor, it was with a ripped off copy of MS Word, Word Perfect, or some such, which clued her into just how vulnerable digital media is, and made her resolve to never let herself be ripped off the same way.
Did she really think that she could also ban the sales of computers scanners and OCR software?
Her insecurity and greed has only caused her to loose millions of potential sales, because when you enter something like "Harry Potter ebook" into any major search engine, instead of being directed to Amazon, B&N, Google Books, or Kobo to buy the ebooks legally, you find instead links to fan sites discussing how to get them from P2P, Usenet, etc.
If she had been a little more tech savvy, she would have realized that, where software companies stopped using 'copy protection' years ago, ebooks are still protected by reasonably effective DRM (resonably effective being defined as encouraging the
majority of people to play by the rules).
Her stubbornness, has done NOTHING to stop the piracy of her books, only prevented her from also recieving royalties from legitimate ebook sales.
Since we have drifted somewhat from the thread topic
let me tie this into the whole debate about the PRS-650, vs. web enabled devices like the PRS-950, Kindle 3, Nook, Kobo WiFi reader etc.
If you do own one of these web linked devices, and have pirated material on your reader, be aware that when you connect to the web THEY CAN SEE EVERY BOOK ON YOUR READER.
In one now famous incident, Amazon acted in true 'Big Brother' fashion to remove two books which violated copyrights from their customers Kindles.
Ironically, one of the books was George Orwell's 1984" . . .
“It was behind the picture,” breathed Julia.
“It was behind the picture,” said the voice. “Remain exactly where you are. Make no movement until you are ordered.”
“The house is surrounded,” said the voice.
“You may as well say good-bye,” said the voice. And then another quite different voice, a thin, cultivated voice which Winston had the impression of having heard before, struck in; “And by the way, while we are on the subject, ‘Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head’!”
So if you were wondering why the new Kindle 3 REALLY has a microphone and speakers, now you know.
