11-19-2007, 03:14 PM | #31 |
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Then let us show it to them!
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11-19-2007, 04:23 PM | #32 |
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Well, it would be quite difficult to fail more spectacularly than Sony failed with their Librie.
Do you remember Librie? The very first e-paper featuring reader. You could only read the content you purchased from Sony. You could not read any other ebook on Librie. You could not read Librie ebook in any other device. Customers in Japan are more used to this kind of treatment than Americans, and yet Librie failed miserably even in Japan. The Librie got hacked eventually, even if there were much fewer users that wanted or needed it hacked. |
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Do you remember Librie? The king of proprietary, non-compatible solutions - Sony had to get burned by Librie before they made a more user friendly DRM system. |
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11-19-2007, 05:05 PM | #34 |
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Yesyesyes, I meant the Reader, not the Librie. I deliberately "forgot" the Librie in my rant.
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Er, no you can't - RTFM . When you buy a book from the Kindle store your ONLY option is to transfer it via EVDO to the Kindle; there's no option to download it to your PC.
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11-20-2007, 07:14 AM | #37 | |
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11-20-2007, 09:06 AM | #38 | |
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I also signed up for a newspaper subscription (first 14 days are free) and it *does not* show up in "Your Media Library". So I can't download it to my PC. Maybe it will after the 14 day free trial is over, maybe it won't. I do not know if magazine and blog subscriptions are treated the same. |
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