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Old 08-22-2007, 03:27 PM   #91
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Old 08-22-2007, 10:49 PM   #92
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Aenea, please refrain from revealing too much. It is not wise to piss off Mobipocket (when or if they come back).
Nah, I won't provide more info or instructions how to do it. It's no where near user friendly at the moment and I don't know if I will ever make it more user friendly. I just wanted to know if it was breakable so I can keep on buying mobi ebooks and since other people on this forum had the same worrying ideas floating around I just wanted to reassure everyone...

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Old 08-22-2007, 11:32 PM   #93
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The breakdown is kinda ironic, if you consider that Amazon is also trying to make some bucks through selling its "highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure" to third parties.
The full-issue downloads at Jim Baen's Universe are from Amazon's S3 service. This works because there is no DRM, so all JBU needs is a link to the static file. These are bigger than typical e-books, because of the illustrations.
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Old 08-23-2007, 05:25 AM   #94
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After a call to our contact of Mobipocket, he confirms us the reopening of the website for today…

Wait & See...
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Old 08-23-2007, 05:30 AM   #95
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I see that Fictionwise have now updated their announcement to say:

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... Engineers at Mobipocket.com have informed us that they hope to be back online sometime this week, August 23 or 24....
so it seems to have been put back another day, possibly.
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Old 08-23-2007, 07:50 AM   #96
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After a call to our contact of Mobipocket, he confirms us the reopening of the website for today…

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Can you ask him what the problem was? It would be interesting to know.
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Old 08-23-2007, 11:53 AM   #97
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I see that Fictionwise have now updated their announcement to say:



so it seems to have been put back another day, possibly.
If it is today, they are running out of working hours.
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Old 08-23-2007, 11:59 AM   #98
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They say to us nothing about the problem

Like on their website... "shut down for maintenance"...
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Old 08-23-2007, 01:47 PM   #99
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I too would love to know the REAL reason for the shutdown. This makes me very nervous, considering the amount of Mobipocket ebooks I have purchased over the years. It is also, by far, my format of choice for reading on my UMPC.

I should also mention, that I have been "lurking" here for years, and find these forums very informative, since getting my very first eBook device, way back when, the Gemstar Rocket eBook.This was followed by the first gen Cybook, and now finally my Samsung Q1, the perfect device for ereading!
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Old 08-23-2007, 01:56 PM   #100
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I too would love to know the REAL reason for the shutdown. This makes me very nervous, considering the amount of Mobipocket ebooks I have purchased over the years. It is also, by far, my format of choice for reading on my UMPC.

I should also mention, that I have been "lurking" here for years, and find these forums very informative, since getting my very first eBook device, way back when, the Gemstar Rocket eBook.This was followed by the first gen Cybook, and now finally my Samsung Q1, the perfect device for ereading!
Welcome NETLOLA!

I am curious about what you're saying about reading on a UMPC. Aren't those tiny LCDs tiring on the eyes? And what about heat and batteries?
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Old 08-23-2007, 02:26 PM   #101
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They say to us nothing about the problem

Like on their website... "shut down for maintenance"...
Well, they are running out of hours in the day if they are bringing it up today. All I know is that I have not sold one book on their site for over a week now. That really hurts revenue.
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Old 08-23-2007, 02:49 PM   #102
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Well, they are running out of hours in the day if they are bringing it up today. All I know is that I have not sold one book on their site for over a week now. That really hurts revenue.
The really bad thing is that Mobipocket's problems have halted sales for other book stores as well. Fictionwise seems to have been able to switch some Mobipocket resources to another DRM provider but paperback digital is dead in the water.
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Old 08-23-2007, 03:19 PM   #103
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I too would love to know the REAL reason for the shutdown. This makes me very nervous, considering the amount of Mobipocket ebooks I have purchased over the years. It is also, by far, my format of choice for reading on my UMPC.

I suspect 'the France is on holiday in August' theory is probably closer to the mark than anyone will ever admit.
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Old 08-23-2007, 03:36 PM   #104
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Well, in France August is regarded kind of like the rest of the world regards the weekend. Right?
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Well, in France August is regarded kind of like the rest of the world regards the weekend. Right?
You're 100% right. But this week, I started receiving a lot of e-mails again: I guess that holidays are over for most people...
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