Gizmodo: How Much It Actually Costs to Publish an Ebook vs. a Real Book - Page 10

dmaul1114 · 03-04-2010, 04:06 PM

I suppose. To me anything might as well be called a license if I can't do whatever I want with it for personal use after buying it.

For instance, I can't make a digital copy of a DVD to put on my laptop? Then I don't own the movie, I own a disc and the right to watch that disc.

But we're teetering into another pointless semantics debate here, and I don't want to get into that.

Shaggy · 03-04-2010, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by dmaul1114

But we're teetering into another pointless semantics debate here, and I don't want to get into that.

This is a discussion forum, of course it's a pointless debate.

fugazied · 03-04-2010, 04:17 PM

They probably want to treat e-books like software and not literature. That means they can slap EULAs (End user license agreements) on them.

Don't forget any platform we use to buy e-books (eg. a website, itunes) will have it's own license conditions.

carbonize · 03-04-2010, 04:21 PM

I'm waiting to see what mangled excuse for DRM Apple is going to slap into ePubs sold via iTunes to make them incompatible with any other ebook reader. It's also thanks to Apple we are going to be looking at higher prices for ebooks due to them letting the publisher set the price.

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03-04-2010, 04:06 PM	#136
dmaul1114 Wizard Posts: 2,300 Karma: 1121709 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Amazon Kindle 1	I suppose. To me anything might as well be called a license if I can't do whatever I want with it for personal use after buying it. For instance, I can't make a digital copy of a DVD to put on my laptop? Then I don't own the movie, I own a disc and the right to watch that disc. But we're teetering into another pointless semantics debate here, and I don't want to get into that.

03-04-2010, 04:17 PM	#138
fugazied Wizard Posts: 1,305 Karma: 1958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: iPod Touch	They probably want to treat e-books like software and not literature. That means they can slap EULAs (End user license agreements) on them. Don't forget any platform we use to buy e-books (eg. a website, itunes) will have it's own license conditions.

03-04-2010, 04:21 PM	#139
carbonize Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 32262 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Bristol, UK Device: Sony PRS-600	I'm waiting to see what mangled excuse for DRM Apple is going to slap into ePubs sold via iTunes to make them incompatible with any other ebook reader. It's also thanks to Apple we are going to be looking at higher prices for ebooks due to them letting the publisher set the price.

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