Very satisfied with Pottermore experience

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

I don't have a problem with that Harry.

I do have a problem with the fact that JKR said she wanted everyone to have the same e-book experience. To me that means all the e-books would use the same fonts and have the same illustrations. It should not matter that they were not in the UK version and they were in the US. The e-books should all have the illustrations or not.

I read that as meaning "the same experience as an eBook that you'd get from the paper book". Don't you think it would be more problematic to have eBooks which were different from the paper books?

I agree with you that if would be nice if the UK books had the illustrations, but they don't, and never have had. I didn't know until I read this thread that the US versions had illustrations .

[AndrewH]

Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl

I am still a bit wary of the watermarking concept. I guess I just have extreme paranoia that someone could steal your ereader and then upload your books to dark places and you get blamed for it.

Not really something to worry about. I'm told all the Harry Potter books (official and otherwise) are already available on the darknet.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by AndrewH

Not really something to worry about. I'm told all the Harry Potter books (official and otherwise) are already available on the darknet.

That doesn't mean somebody wouldn't do something with it anyway. And I was speaking of watermarking in general if it becomes a more popular method. I would prefer for books to be just plain DRM-free as the music industry has eventually done.

[HansTWN]

Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl

That doesn't mean somebody wouldn't do something with it anyway. And I was speaking of watermarking in general if it becomes a more popular method. I would prefer for books to be just plain DRM-free as the music industry has eventually done.

Aren't songs you buy on iTunes watermarked?

Watermarking is a great compromise. We get what we want, full use without DRM, and there is some protection for authors and publishers. I am not paranoid about this and would greatly welcome it if others followed in Pottermore's footsteps. To demand that there is no protection at all would be unreasonable.

[Victoria]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

I also have a problem with the fact that the e-books are geo-restricted. She controls the global rights so why do I have to use a work around to get the UK version? That makes no sense. I have been wanting to read the UK version but thought that having the UK and US version in paper was over kill. Why can't someone in the US choose the UK version and vice versa?

I would be very annoyed by that as well. You want to be able to read them as they were written.

It's funny how the rules differ, depending on where you live. At the Canadian portal, I was able to select either the American or the UK versions. I guess because we use many but not all the English spellings - my kindle has two dictionaries as well - English & American- though oddly, not French.

I don't understand the geo-restrictions regarding music. I may and do order CDs from the US Amazon, but I cannot download the same music, even when it's a Canadian artist, or Canadian label. Go figure.

[Victoria]

Originally Posted by HansTWN

Watermarking is a great compromise. We get what we want, full use without DRM, and there is some protection for authors and publishers. I am not paranoid about this and would greatly welcome it if others followed in Pottermore's footsteps. To demand that there is no protection at all would be unreasonable.

My sentiments exactly.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by Victoria

My sentiments exactly.

I agree, as long as the watermarking doesn't expose the consumer to needless risk, like exposing a credit number or such. Then we'd have hackers targeting us to get our ebooks.

[HansTWN]

Originally Posted by ApK

I agree, as long as the watermarking doesn't expose the consumer to needless risk, like exposing a credit number or such. Then we'd have hackers targeting us to get our ebooks.

Don't give the publishers any ideas....

[Synamon]

Pottermore seems happy with the experiment: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...er-ebook-sales

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by ApK

I agree, as long as the watermarking doesn't expose the consumer to needless risk, like exposing a credit number or such. Then we'd have hackers targeting us to get our ebooks.

I think they only want to track you. As you had to register to a shop, in order to make payments, some ID of that shop + some ID of you from that shop would be enough.

And if a book is only watermarked, but would leave me free to load it on all my devices and even format change it (so I can actually read it on all my devices), I'm a happy girl. Because that's the only reason I clean any book I buy that is infected with DRM.

[David Munch]

Originally Posted by AndrewH

Not really something to worry about. I'm told all the Harry Potter books (official and otherwise) are already available on the darknet.

They've been that since book 1 was released.

Originally Posted by HansTWN

Aren't songs you buy on iTunes watermarked?

Yes.