tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post2630634007083336606..comments2023-12-22T09:04:09.898-08:00Comments on Six Boxes of Books: A Sucker for E-BooksWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11690852339559706714noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-11604983492572401232009-11-30T07:42:24.509-08:002009-11-30T07:42:24.509-08:00Thanks for the post, Wendy! I was happy to see men...Thanks for the post, Wendy! I was happy to see mention of DRM (digital rights management) pop up, as this is an issue that is worth discussing. It makes me a bit nervous when the entire eBook reader market is so tied to one company (amazon) and one product (kindle). Hopefully (as has happened with iTunes music and the iPod) the DRM will be removed and readers will be able to purchase books from a variety of outlets and read them on a range of devices.Scope Noteshttp://100scopenotes.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-3019898665596452882009-11-30T06:57:46.842-08:002009-11-30T06:57:46.842-08:00Wendy, DRM is software in the ebook file that prev...Wendy, DRM is software in the ebook file that prevents you from doing what you want with your book. It might prevent you from printing part of it, or using it on a particular device, or giving it to a friend when you're done with it. You can't (at least, I don't think) read a B&N ebook on a Kindle, and you can't read a Kindle book on a Mac or on a Sony Reader or whatever the next big device is.<br /><br />As far as I'm concerned, these are my decisions to make, not the publisher's or B&N's or Amazon's or whoever. For a typical ebook that I'm going to read once and forget about, it probably doesn't matter--until it does, and I get annoyed.mamsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290602321779139588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-37593069138735058192009-11-29T16:38:23.742-08:002009-11-29T16:38:23.742-08:00I tried googling DRM to figure out what the heck y...I tried googling DRM to figure out what the heck you're talking about, but it's clearly way beyond me.<br /><br />Jennifer, I think that story would warm the hearts of the Project Gutenberg people... happily, there's a much bigger selection available now. For a while I did proofreading for Project Gutenberg, which was a fascinating thing (that anyone can do...)Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11690852339559706714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-58460034008750063142009-11-29T15:03:20.556-08:002009-11-29T15:03:20.556-08:00My friend Liza, who's in the ebook business, m...My friend Liza, who's in the ebook business, maintains a <a href="http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/10/list-of-drm-free-publishers/" rel="nofollow">list of DRM-free ebook sellers</a>. All of them are pretty nichey, I think.<br /><br />I want to buy and read more ebooks (I find reading on my iPhone screen very comfortable), but I have trouble finding books I want that are DRM-free, and that's really important to me.mamsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290602321779139588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-88780524255982538782009-11-29T14:37:37.681-08:002009-11-29T14:37:37.681-08:00I discovered Project Gutenberg and similar sites a...I discovered Project Gutenberg and similar sites about ten years ago, when I was a teen. For several years we couldn't afford a library card at the bigger city library nearby (dunno what they charge now, but nonresident fee then was $50). I read - literally - everything in our miniscule local library, from the complete works of Jane Austen to I was a sixth grade alien by Bruce Coville. I'd read the many, many books lying around our house. I was desperate! Project Gutenberg was marvelous. Of course, there wasn't much "convenience" about it then - we had dial-up so it took forever to download, the format could really get exhausting on your eyes, and once I'd read all the "good" stuff I was stuck with weird 18th century miscellanea. But I had books!Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05096787155616041727noreply@blogger.com