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Originally Posted by scstraus
No one seems to be mentioning the problem of finding content.
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That's because we aren't having problem finding content. Right now, I have over 530MB of unread eBooks (mostly in text format). Plus another 130MB that I've already read.
I've collected these eBooks from Gutenberg, Blackmask (when it was up), Usenet eBook newsgroups and others.
Newer content comes from Fictionwise, Creative Common and misc other places like Baen. Right now I am reading Baen Universe #1 - a collection of short stories from Baen Books.
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Originally Posted by scstraus
I'd imagine if you are satisfied with reading project gutenberg docs, random pdf's or html you find on the web it's fine, but what if you want new books and magazines?
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Creative Commons. A link to a free book on London ambulence services was just posted
here at MobileRead.
FictionWise. Lots of good stuff, all for pay, but reasonable prices for non-DRM stuff.
Unfortunately, it looks like Blackmask is still off-line.
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Originally Posted by scstraus
Has anyone found any good solutions for getting current bestselling books or magazines onto this thing?
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IHMO. "Best selling" = "most hyped" and not necessairly = "good".
Really, I could care less about most "best sellers". The truely good stuff ends up scanned and posted to Usenet. I just go out and purchase the paper edition too to make sure that the author is compensated. (I wish I could just send the author the money for the book directly, then he'll get more than $0.70 for that book.)
Also, I found that many books that I eschewed as a teen are really good and in the public domain today, so Gutenberg is nothing to sneeze at.
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Originally Posted by scstraus
Unfortunately all the e-magazine and e-book formats seem to be proprietary with DRM.
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Yup. And the best way to fix that is to hit them hard where it hurts: their wallets. Don't buy DRM and sooner or later, DRM will go away (or at least be made non-painful).
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Originally Posted by scstraus
I wish we could have a Zinio Reader, Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket, etc for this, then it would really be useful.
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I don't. These readers are closed, proprietary solutions. The purpose of such solutions is to lock users into a particular company and make it painful and/or expensive to go somewhere else.
INMO: anyone who made an investment in any of these readers is foolish. And you know what they say about a "fool and his money"... Sorry if that offends anyone, but if you payed money for
anything that has DRM on it, you did not buy it - you rented it. And they never guaranteed you the right to use that content outside of their control.