11-06-2018, 07:11 AM | #121 |
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Unfortunately open ePubs (in my experience at least) are generally not the type of book that the typical person actually wants to read. The ones I've seen have tended toward rather heavy-weight academic tomes. But that may of course simply indicate that I've been looking in the wrong place .
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11-06-2018, 09:45 AM | #122 |
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i have had at least one (UK) library loan that appeared with no DRM. e.g. when I did download epub at checkout I got a whole book but with a gibberish file name, not a licence file for ADE. I don't recall the specific title though. would have been fiction, not non fiction.
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For example, some of Brandon Sanderson's books are available. |
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11-06-2018, 05:13 PM | #124 |
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For the libraries, the DRM also serves to enforce the time limit on a loan. If I borrow an open epub from my local library, it does not have a limited reading period. Given the limits on lending with most ebooks obtained by libraries, having a single patron borrow and not return a book might be a bit of an issue.
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11-07-2018, 01:25 AM | #126 |
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In a way, it's irrelevant? The current library standard of DRM is not exactly fort Knox. Anyone who want to crack it, can.
For me, as the library reading apps improve, like Libby, I am ok with reading in that an not bothering with the hassle of downloading epub via ade. Yes, moon reader is more customisable but Libby is good enough for a read it once novel. |
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i use the local(overdrive) library as a source of read-it-once & return it novels |
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11-07-2018, 07:21 PM | #129 |
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05-28-2021, 03:55 AM | #131 | |
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Someone has to pay for this, and small companies will be financially-forced to join one or the other of the big players. What I find it to be the most dangerous, is that the installed base of readers would become useless for the new books. Software can be updated (upgraded here would be a misnomer ), but portable players would be an instant kill. Everyone would be forced, if they want to, to move to the new platforms, like iPads or Android tablets, which can do pretty much everything (the market for photo and video lost significant shares, since everyone was happy with the quality of the cellphone/tablet photos). This would either force the normal citizen to change and pay more, or kill the ebooks niche. I doubt clever people would move along, since the new books, written under contract, became mass-products, as opposed to real books, written by people that had really something to say (Aristotle, Plato, and all authors before Bern 1860). |
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05-28-2021, 07:30 AM | #132 |
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Best option is NO DRM.
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People will not buy eBooks with DRM they cannot either use or remove. So this DRM mentioned in the first post is worthless. There are too many devices with RMSDK and also here is Overdrive. So if any publisher and/or store switches to this DRM, sales will tank.
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