[tomsem]

I think I have figured out why you cannot get more titles in Print Replica format for Scribe. It has to do with the Sharing of pen annotations.

For Personal Documents, you can share the entire content of the document, with pen annotations and highlights rendered to a PDF. You can also export a Notebook with highlights, text notes, and reduced-sized pages with pen annotations on them.

I have only purchased two Write On books: a Sudoku puzzle book and a Journal book (free). The former only allows export of bookmarks, text notes and highlights (as if there would be any point to exporting those types). The Journal book lets you export a notebook with those types, plus the reduced-sized images of pages you have made annotations to. Neither allows exporting the complete book.

A publisher that wanted to allow a textbook to download to Scribe would likely not be happy with any export that included the reduced-size images of their copyrighted material. And customers would not be happy that their pen annotations cannot be shared or exported at all, or that they cannot make any pen annotations in the first place.

In some cases it might be possible to export only clipped regions, but would not cover case where one drew a box around all of the page content. Amazon could include a copyright message on the images, but that probably wouldn't satisfy publishers, and the copyright message would need to be specific to the book/publisher.

One possible workaround would be to allow sticky notes in Print Replica. Then one could still use pen to write handwritten inline notes, and there would not be issues with exporting them. But that is not implemented. And probably that would not satisfy customer expectations.

I have to play with my PocketBook readers to see how they handle exporting handwritten annotation. But none of the reading material I have for it has DRM so I'm not sure that's a good guide.

How does Kobo do things?

As things are, if there are Print Replica titles I'm interested in, I'll probably get them from Google Play Books store instead. Many of those can be downloaded as PDF and have DRM removed, at which point I can have full access to them on Scribe once they're converted to Print Replica.