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Since I can do that sort of thing myself, I have no need to pay for it, but I have no objection to anyone else charging a nominal fee for doing it. ______ Dennis |
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I have the ability to get PD texts and reformat them, but if I got an iPhone (and I've no plans to do so), I might go for a deal like this. If the books were at all well adapted for the iPhone, it might make sense to buy them at 99 cents. I tend to place a decent value on my time, and using that measure, it would cost me more than 99 cents to do it myself. ______ Dennis |
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What I would like to see is a section, like the free section, just for ebooks on the iphone and not mix them up with the other apps. I'm sure in time, someone will create a program that converts txt/mobi/pdf/whatever into something that looks good on the iphone for $9.99 and I will but it. I already have thousands of Public Domain books on my MacPro that make it to my Kindle and Mobireader.
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No conversion required. There's already an iPhone/Touch App called "Bookshelf" which apparently does a very nice job of displaying DRM-free Mobi, Plucker, PalmDoc, Text, HTML, and several other formats too.
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07-13-2008, 11:26 AM | #38 | |
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There used to be hacks like that for the PC years ago, that would let you create a self-displaying text file. the user didn't have to have anything installed to read it -- all they had to do was run the program. ______ Dennis |
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I thought Mobipocket wouldn't license their DRM on any platform that also supported a different DRM scheme? That was what the Astak folks were saying.
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They provide the reader free for a variety of platforms, includingg PCs, PocketPC/Windows Mobile devices, Palm OS devices, Symbian based smartphones, and Blackberries, most of which can run applications that use other foirms of DRM as well, but won't license thier DRM to hardware vendors who want to embed their app if they intend to support any other form of DRM? Sounds like an attempt to lock in market share for their DRM protected commercial ebook offerings. Of course, things might get interesting if the market decides DRM is counter productive and stops applying it... (I don't expect to see that happen any time soon, mind you.) ______ Dennis Last edited by DMcCunney; 07-14-2008 at 12:02 AM. |
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I know that my Kindle Store books can only be read on the Kindle, but there is so much free content out there that I can read on my Kindle and on my computer and my PDA (if for one second I wanted to read on my PDA) that it makes up for it. Ah well ... I have no idea why I even wandered in to this discussion. I'm not going to purchase an iPhone, for reading or anything else. I love my Motorola Q phone too much to give it up (and I already have all the apps for it since it runs on Windows CE). |
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