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Old 08-17-2011, 01:49 PM   #76
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9.7" with a measly resolution of 800x600? That's going to be have a rather poor DPI. And they said it was slow. Sorry, it sounds like it needs a better screen and maybe a better screen controller.
It's difficult because you need 4 times more capsules for 1 pixel instead compared to the grayscale to get the color. This is why the pixel count is low and also why it's slow, as you need more processing speed to get the same result.
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Old 08-17-2011, 01:53 PM   #77
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Ms Rowling's representatives have now (12:30 17 August UK time) been back in touch. They say that in fact Harry Potter e-books will be made available for all platforms simultaneously via the Pottermore website: there will be no period during which it will be available only with the Sony reader, as we had previously understood.
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Old 08-17-2011, 02:15 PM   #78
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Ms Rowling's representatives have now (12:30 17 August UK time) been back in touch. They say that in fact Harry Potter e-books will be made available for all platforms simultaneously via the Pottermore website: there will be no period during which it will be available only with the Sony reader, as we had previously understood.
Ah, that's better
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Old 08-17-2011, 04:04 PM   #79
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The article linked in the first post had this at the end:
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Ms Rowling's representatives have now (12:30 17 August UK time) been back in touch. They say that in fact Harry Potter e-books will be made available for all platforms simultaneously via the Pottermore website: there will be no period during which it will be available only with the Sony reader, as we had previously understood.
Then did Sony pay or not?
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According to the sources, Sony is paying Rowling millions for early electronic rights to Potter, but rather than adding to her fortune, last estimated at £560m, she is handing the proceeds to a charity for children with learning disabilities.
No early access -> no need to pay -> no charity for children with learning disabilities getting funding
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No early access -> no need to pay -> no charity for children with learning disabilities getting funding
Actually, wasn't it mentioned earlier that proceeds from the ebook sales will go to charity? I seem to recall reading something to that effect when Pottermore was first launched.
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Old 08-18-2011, 02:34 AM   #81
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Trivial to get around using a free VPN such as:

http://www.hidemyass.com

Like the previous poster I find Google Books invaluable as a source of scans for old books. I use it to get scans for proofreading my eBooks.
May be trivial for you, but when I use things like that, it will show that there are pages, but not the pages themselves. Besides, if I must jump through several hoops, it might as well not exist. That's why I stopped buying from Fictionwise.
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May be trivial for you, but when I use things like that, it will show that there are pages, but not the pages themselves.
You're right: if you go in through "hidemyass" it doesn't show the pages, for whatever reason. But if you click the "Preview this book" link it will then give you download options for PDF and ePub. The PDF version is the page scan (which is what I download); the ePub version is a generally pretty bad raw OCR.
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Old 08-18-2011, 07:20 AM   #83
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Actually, wasn't it mentioned earlier that proceeds from the ebook sales will go to charity? I seem to recall reading something to that effect when Pottermore was first launched.
But that would be extra. I mean that even with the original understanding of the article I would have expected sony to hand over the due percentage from the book sales.
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Can you please link to where Amazon said the Harry Potter eBooks will be available for the Kindle. Google eBooks is ePub.
1) As drofgnal pointed out, The Reg article was updated to say that the HP books will be available for "all platforms simultaneously via Pottermore."

2) http://paidcontent.org/article/419-a...ble-on-kindle/

It's still unclear if this means Kindle will support ePub.

3) Rowling is not an idiot, and is not going to freeze out a huge chunk of the ebook market.
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... for any length of time.
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3) Rowling is not an idiot, and is not going to freeze out a huge chunk of the ebook market.
If ALL proceeds are going to charity (which I doubt), I can't imagine why Rowling would care that much about maximizing sales. If it turns out that a million slipped through the cracks somewhere in sales, she can make it up from her $500 million fortune, no?
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If ALL proceeds are going to charity (which I doubt), I can't imagine why Rowling would care that much about maximizing sales. If it turns out that a million slipped through the cracks somewhere in sales, she can make it up from her $500 million fortune, no?
I doubt it will all go to charity. I bet a lot goes to the tax collector and maintenance of pottermore itself.
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I doubt it will all go to charity. I bet a lot goes to the tax collector and maintenance of pottermore itself.
My thinking as well. There's net and then there's gross.
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1) As drofgnal pointed out, The Reg article was updated to say that the HP books will be available for "all platforms simultaneously via Pottermore."

2) http://paidcontent.org/article/419-a...ble-on-kindle/

It's still unclear if this means Kindle will support ePub.

3) Rowling is not an idiot, and is not going to freeze out a huge chunk of the ebook market.
I forget which article, but at least one of them has had an update to say it's not true about Sony being exclusive. But maybe Sony will be exclusive in terms of being able to sell an HP themed reader with all the HP eBooks bundled on board. That would still be pretty good.

I'm hoping this means the Kindle will support ePub. But I doubt it. I can't see Amazon caving even though it is better for customers.
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I forget which article, but at least one of them has had an update to say it's not true about Sony being exclusive....
Yes, that would be the article which made the claim, and thus spawned a few days' worth of uninformed, incorrect and wild speculation on how the HP ebooks will be handled.


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But maybe Sony will be exclusive in terms of being able to sell an HP themed reader with all the HP eBooks bundled on board.
Maybe, but at this point I'm more inclined to think that El Reg just got taken for a ride.
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