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I was an early convert to ebooks and began purchasing them in the late 90's. Before realizing what a problem DRM would cause and learning how to remove it, I lost hundreds of dollars worth of ebooks in MS LIT, Gemstar, Franklin eBookman, and a couple of other formats that are no longer supported.
When the first Kindles came out in 2007, I switched over to Kindle and have never regretted doing so but I learned my lesson about DRM. I now use Calibre with the Apprentice Alf plug-ins and routinely remove the DRM from all my ebooks as soon as I buy them. I don't illegally share them with anyone but I refuse to be locked into anyone's proprietary DRM scheme. |
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Why it has not yet happened is because no one up until now has had a decisive edge in eBook sales and had to conform to common industry standards (ePub and its derivatives). Amazon now may be moving into a decisive edge and may start conversion of their eBook inventory. Some software like encryption modules and cookies are written directly in machine code. Thus, it would be quite easy to insert a cookie to detect alteration of an eBook and then either self destruct the file or send a message to the seller via the internet. Even if the internet was disconnected, a delayed message could be created and then sent once the internet was activated. Updates of all our software happens like that now taking place when the computer is inactive and the internet is connected. By the way, Amazon now sells songs without any DRM. However, they insert a serial number which identifies the customer and song. If that serial number is removed, the file becomes illegal. If a customer, not being the buyer, ends up with that file with the serial number, then he as well can be identified. Its possible that Amazon may strip all DRM from eBooks and insert serial numbers as they do now with the songs. If that happens, Calibre would still work fine but Apprentice Alf would become obsolete. So far as I know, there was only one major crackdown on DRM stripping and that had to do with songs. Technology enabled song publishers to identify names and addresses of violators and mailed thousands of subpoenas out. That move proved very unpopular with customers and was never repeated. Thus, there is little likelihood that it will ever be repeated with eBooks. Frankly, I believe only a small minority of eBook purchasers from Amazon even know about Calibre and Apprentice Alf. Most probably just buy the eBook to read it just as most just buy songs to listen and don't bother with metadata alterations or any other technical maneuvers. Last edited by sirmaru; 01-02-2014 at 01:21 PM. |
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You are throwing around technical terms without understanding them or the concepts they represent.
There is so much wrong in your comment (& previous comments) that it would take far too long to correct your errors. I'd just like to state, for the record, my opinion that you have almost everything wrong, in case my silence might seem to be agreement. |
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+1 to the last few comments!
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Please ignore all sirmarustomers. (definition to be expanded)
@sirmaru, I've said this before and I'll say it again: |
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Windows is the standard, but only on desktops and notebooks. Basically everything else runs some form of Unix or a Unix-like such as Linux, from the smallest microcontrollers to the biggest supercomputers. Oh, there's some Windows Embedded and Server stuff around, and some Windows High Powered Computing stuff too, but Linux/Unix outside the desktopmarket is just a lot bigger. So what's the standard now? It's not so clear-cut anymore. Amazon AZW3 is the standard in the English speaking world, but basically everything else in the world uses EPUB, even more so if a country doesn't even have an Amazon store, such as the Netherlands. If I want to buy an book, I can buy it at... oh... 15 Dutch stores, 5-6 non-Dutch stores (of which I know) as EPUB, or as AZW3 at Amazon.com, for a MUCH higher price most of the time. So... why should I see AZW3/Amazon as the standard? Quote:
It only works on non-DRM'd files. Quote:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200767340 Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX) HTML (.HTML, .HTM) RTF (.RTF) Text (.TXT) JPEG (.JPEG, .JPG) Kindle Format (.MOBI, .AZW) GIF (.GIF) PNG (.PNG) BMP (.BMP) PDF (.PDF) Files may be converted better or worse depending on file type. Quote:
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Obviously it didn't bring them any advantages, so they didn't license their newer file types, AFAIK. Last edited by Katsunami; 01-02-2014 at 07:55 PM. |
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![]() How you store that content is a much smaller issue when tools can do the work for you of packing your content into a particular container. Having to craft things to work for both ePub and Mobi is simply more painful than it had to be, and KF8 does help a ton there. |
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I'm just trying to dispel the misconception that there's an ePub lurking in a KF8 that need only be yanked out. ![]() |
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I thought that KF8 == AZW3 (can you tell I'm in IT?) and that converting from KF8/AZW3 to ePub was not so much a conversion as an unpack that removed an Amazon wrapper. Is this wrong? |
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