03-01-2009, 06:06 PM | #16 | |
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Epub is very Processor Intencive and slow, its made to be converted, and the way the kindle is set up, you can have an epub book and read it on a kindle. It flexability is exactly what makes it convertable to a format that can be read anywhere Epubs are not easy to create, they look like crap unless you hand code them. the Kindle is more Open than an Ipod is today even, and Ipods sells like hot cakes. Ipods File systems are still Locked down, you still need their propritary software to use it, and only recently did they pull DRM from their Labels, and that was only by Strong Arming the Music Industry after they took them over. Amazon cannot strong arm publishers yet, and for the moment they want their kindle store locked down and Proprietary, they are simply the best, but the market is still small, they want to sell their devices with their library, grow the market out, and then take over fully, they plan on opening their library soon to Cell Phones, and when they do, I suspect they will start offering DRM free books too. |
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03-01-2009, 06:08 PM | #17 | |
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I think it has a better file selection than the Kindle (mobi or bust!) The only lock in on the Reader is that you have to connect it to a computer. |
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03-01-2009, 06:10 PM | #18 | |
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03-01-2009, 06:20 PM | #19 | |
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I do own an iTouch I use for reading at the moment, and you're right, it's absolutely abysmal when it comes to any kind of standards. It was a wrong purchase, made because of monetary restraint and a cheap offer. I wish I hadn't done it now and just held out a little longer and put that money towards one of the new breed of readers about to be released. As to ePub being processor intensive, I honestly haven't noticed that at all, not on the iTouch I've been using to read, or on my computer. And creating is getting easier by the day, eCub for one allows you to do it all without any hand-coding (although I prefer the hand-coding route myself, which is about as hard as creating a web-page). I hope your predictions about DRM free books come true, and that's all I want. Fair priced, DRM-free, standards compliant books available in my country from Amazon without ridiculous agreements wherein I may lose my whole library on their whims. I don't see why I should buy into anything that doesn't satisfy my needs (I already did that with the iTouch and I won't be doing it again). |
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03-01-2009, 07:34 PM | #20 |
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Maybe my head has been buried in the sand, but this is the first I've heard of Amazon pushing DRM, I thought the publishers demanded it usually. DRM is just a pain in the ass for legitimate book buyers
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03-01-2009, 09:03 PM | #21 |
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Is it just Amazon? In this case Amazon/Mobi would be the distributor. I know some of the ebook only pub's will sell you their books directly without DRM, but for stores like Fictionwise they use someone like Lightning Source (Ingram) as a distributor and those same books have DRM. I can't see the publisher choosing to add the DRM since they sell it without directly. Maybe this is something the big distributors are helping to push.
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03-01-2009, 09:13 PM | #22 | |
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03-01-2009, 09:16 PM | #23 | |
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PDF with heavy formatting/graphics/tables/columns are going to be way too much of a mess when converted to any other format unless you hand fix it after the conversion. Also ePub can be made with heavy formatting as well which may or may not be all that easy to convert. Can't say. Never tried. But most eBooks will convert fine or ok enough. |
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Nobody is forcing this publisher to sell their books via the Amazon bookstore. |
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However, Bezos has stated that Amazon is DRM-agnostic and that the choice is up to the publishers. Their actions say otherwise, and that doesn't sit well with me. |
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So is Bezos giving us the royal run around? Is he saying it's up to the publishers and then forcing DRM?
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Something about this sounds fishy to me. I suspect we're not hearing the whole story. There's certainly no problem with selling books in the Mobi store which don't have DRM - I know people who are doing precisely that.
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