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If you are getting your ebooks from Sony... http://ebookstore.sony.com/termsofservice.html
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I paid for the books, I will read them where I want.
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An example that many users here will be familiar with is Calibre. It's released under the GNU General Public License, v3. The licence states that it is "designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies" of the software. |
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"Unified ebook format" is a nice idea; it's not going to happen. I believe that ePub will eventually drive mobi out of the market--but PDF is here to stay. Some publications do well with reflowable formats (most novels, especially), but some really need fixed page layouts--children's books, art books, certain reference works. And PDF has a convenience far beyond its use for "books;" the ability to make consistently-printable business docs is going to keep it active.
We may see a new ebook format show up in the future, like HTML or RTF, that's easily editable to allow notes. That, too, has pros and cons; novelists won't have much use for it, but schools might, especially if edits & notes are somehow clearly marked. The problems with DRM are different; those are likely to go away (or be diminished) as the "sell used MP3s" ruling ripples through other media arenas. DRM makes a stronger, not weaker, case for the ability to sell or trade used digital works--after all, if someone makes an app that removes a book from your Kindle library and transfers it to someone else's, that's just like handing off a paperback, right? I think the EULAs won't hold up to the basic logic of first-sale rights, once there's an easy way to say "I no longer have it; now this other person does." And I suspect that both Amazon and the publishers will object to that, but counterpoints may include the fact that they work very hard to convince people that they're just "buying books" in different formats, not choosing between "buy this pbook" or "license the right to access this content in ebook form." Refusing to allow first-sale rights on ebooks may require them to relabel sales sites to make it clear that an ebook is not a "sale." |
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They should have the numbers for 2011 soon, but if it follows the trend, pdf is going down. |
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If CBR ever figures out how to support searchable text (I can imagine some ways; having txt file or files & a load file to relate them to the pages), it may displace PDF as an image-based format, but unless that happens, PDF is going to remain the format of choice for commercial picture-text books, like children's books. There's less and less need for "this is an ebook! It looks just like a paper book!" But there'll always be a need for "this shows up exactly like we planned it." And right now, PDF is the best widely-available format for that. |
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I don't think the future of ebooks is going to be "there's no way to read fixed-layout content," and right now, that format is PDF much more than cbr/cbz, which don't support search at all. |
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Precisely. PDF is superb at the job it was created to do - to be an electronic reproduction of a printed page. It was never intended for use an an eBook format for hand-held devices.
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