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Originally Posted by Joseph R
I do believe your two Sony Models connect to a Computer through USB and are able to use Abode Digital Edition, If I am correct. Your identity would be confirmed through your connecting computer to the Cloud and therefore, you can upload to your device through USB.
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What has that got to do with the cloud? If I have to store the books locally, whether they're provided from a cloud or a specific publisher/store/whatever server is irrelevant.
I can download & export-to-device now. I can do it from cloud-based stores and non-cloud based stores. Are you saying that I'll be able to, for example, log into my account from a different machine (say, at a public library), and download to my device, rather than needing to use software connected to my computer?
I thought the point of the cloud would be that you wouldn't store a copy locally--you'd be constantly connected, so they wouldn't have to provide you a (crackable) copy of the content; it'd be streamed, not downloaded with intent to keep.
(And right now, although 3 of the 4 ebook readers in the house are ADE-compatible, we don't have an ADE account. I don't do DRM, not even for freebies. I won't say I'd never change, but it'd take a much more compelling argument than "our store is available from library computers too!" to lose my ability to buy books readable on both my Sony and my daughter's Kindle.)
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That is where the interests of the customer and the content provider conflict. Legally, when you buy content, you own the physical property of it; e.g.: The paper of a book, the DVD on which the movie is printed on, but not the Intellectual property (IP).
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Depends on the seller, and what the terms of sale.
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This is why you have a FBI (Interpol) warning before each movie, the expression "All Rights Reserved" written with. the ISBN and printing information of a book.
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Which is often false. Many of them say "no part of this may be reproduced in any way without written permission from the publisher," or similar phrasing--which is not true. Fair use allows quoting for reviews, critique, education, parody, and so on.
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Yes, I see and understand your frustration, and yes, I hope that content providers WILL recognized that demographic that are happy with what they have, but I doubt it. Consider how we were pushed to go from VHS to DVD, cassettes to CD.
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I don't have to "hope;" I have easy access to more ebook content than I can read in my lifetime. If no more DRM-free ebooks were published, ever, I could happily continue to read for the rest of my life. Since I don't think open publishing is going to *stop* in the near future, I don't really care what the "agency 6" decide on for a business model. If they want me to buy their books, they'll offer them in a format I'll buy.
I'd feel a bit limited if I were constrained entirely to Project Gutenberg and the Archive of Our Own, plus whatever I chop and scan for myself--but I wouldn't be lacking in quality reading material.