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11-23-2007, 02:40 PM | #17 | |
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11-23-2007, 05:11 PM | #18 | |
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11-24-2007, 01:14 PM | #19 | |
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Publishers are having a hard enough time embracing e-books as it is, and the plethora of piñatas.... er formats!... is just one more stopgap in the adoption process. I see one format-- preferably made by the guys that sell the most of your (publishers) books -- being key to publishers accepting this whole e-book "thing." Amazon licensing their format (hopefully it's as good as LRF!) to other companies -- and said companies like Sony buying in -- is something I desperately want to see. -Pie Last edited by EatingPie; 11-24-2007 at 01:31 PM. |
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11-24-2007, 01:46 PM | #20 |
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From what I have read the publishers will generate .epub.
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11-24-2007, 04:02 PM | #21 |
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Well, one reason is that the Kindle is only available to 5% of the world's population - those who live in the US. Perhaps publishers might like to also sell to the other 95%?
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11-24-2007, 06:53 PM | #22 |
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11-26-2007, 02:56 PM | #23 | |
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What's .epub? Did the article suggest that from this format, it would be up to the e-book sellers to generate the format of their choice?
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On an international note. It's interesting that the OLPC project (one laptop per child) was motivated in part by book supplies... or lack thereof. You get one OLPC into a child's hand, then CD-Roms containing hundreds of texts -- or via wireless -- is a billion times easier than shipping the actual hundreds of texts (one textbook per child times 1000 text books is a nightmare of scale). If the OLPC accomplishes the project goal, I'm betting THEIR format of choice will be available to the far greater majority of the world's population. Though I'm somewhat skeptical of the OLPC's chosen e-book format being the one that ultimately takes off (the aforementioned 5% is far more affluent and sends a lot more money into corporate coffers), let's hope they choose a good one just in case! -Pie |
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11-27-2007, 05:12 AM | #24 |
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11-27-2007, 05:32 AM | #25 |
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11-27-2007, 05:36 AM | #26 |
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Can you please repost the link here? Thanks!
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11-27-2007, 05:50 AM | #27 | |
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11-27-2007, 06:39 AM | #28 | |
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Some authors seem to equate DRM-free with easily stolen. I don't think this is true, but the real question is why do you care? It does not matter how many people download a bootlegged copy. What matters is how many people pay for a legal copy. Even a bootlegged e-book can lead to a p-book sale. If Amazon comes to dominates the e-book market, and requires DRM, then authors may indeed need to allow DRM (although it isn't usually their choice anyway). I think Amazon is making a strategic (long term) mistake not allowing other e-book sellers access to the Kindle with DRMed e-books. Most of their customers would buy from Amazon anyway, but now the only way for others to access the Kindle market is with DRM-free e-books. |
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11-27-2007, 08:10 AM | #29 |
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Amazon are very big throughout Europe; that's what makes their decision to go with EVDO as a wireless solution so puzzling. Had they gone with EDGE, as Apple did with the iPhone, the Kindle could have easily been rolled out internationally. As it is, the hardware will need to be redesigned for the European market.
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11-27-2007, 12:11 PM | #30 | |
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And for me that hits the nail on the head with e-books. It's not about DRM vs. non-DRM. It's about content being available. Between Amazon and the Sony store, there's still hardly anything I want to purchase because the selection is so sparse (by my tastes anyway). I go off the beaten path to find e-books for one simple reason: that's the only way I can find them! -Pie |
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