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RE: Everything Keeps Coming Around!
As long as these damned e-books are *SO* overpriced, no one will ever take the plunge to really start buying them. Adding to the misery is the locking/unlocking process-if you ever change device IDs you are really in for a long evening of aggravation. I consider myself a fairly avid e-book reader and to date I've bought only two titles, both of which were promotional deals and discounted heavily. Only when new released are $4 (or less) a pop will we start to see anything even resembling a blip on the radar of consumer interest. Until then, I'll just keep reading my public domain literary classics and waiting. Oh, it would also help to see some format consolidation--the e-book market is even more confusing than the downloadable audio business--DOCs, Tomeraider, PalmReader, Plucker, straight up txt files etc etc. As a registered EReader Pro user, I'd really like to see the program handle every format out there without having to have multiple readers installed.
A shame, as an underclocked T3 running EReader Pro is about as fine of a PDA/book reader combo are you are likely to find nowadays.
RE: Everything Keeps Coming Around!
Looks like times are booming good for accountants and attorneys.
Pat Horne; www.churchoflivingfaith.com
RE: Everything Keeps Coming Around!
Still, I don't think the article was negative -- you did notice the part where it said that ebooks were the biggest growing segment of the publishing world, didn't you? The churn around PDM/eReader doesn't reflect the economics of the eBook market as much as the chaos that was around Palm during the rapid expansion and deflation of the technology bubble.
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Ben Combee
http://palmos.combee.net - PDA programmer weblog
I don't get it.
RE: I don't get it.
But the way it is now it's retarded.
RE: I don't get it.
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"There's always hope, because it's the one thing nobody's figured out how to kill yet." -- Galen, Crusade (B5)
RE: I don't get it.
That still doesn't excuse them making it be a totally seperate account from eReader.com. They should have just used the same system.
RE: I don't get it.
I avoided buying PalmReader/eReader books from Fictionwise.com for a long time because they would not be part of my library at Palm Digital Media. I wanted all my ebooks in that format to be together. They won me over with several of their 100% MicroPay deals, so now I have eReader books in both libraries.
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"There's always hope, because it's the one thing nobody's figured out how to kill yet." -- Galen, Crusade (B5)
Value?
This has value?
It's no wonder that Fictionwise is doing so well.
RE: Value?
And that's the big flaw with the encrypted eBook format at PDM. You can't lend it to a buddy, give it to a library or even let your spouse read it. Hell I can't even borrow it from a library. And when you "almost" pay what you would for a printed version you have to wonder, is this a rip off? No printing costs, delivery costs, wastage costs, extremely low staorage costs, etc - I think so. I'm not disputing that in our digital age, copyright protection is most valid, just that this particular implementation is not perfect and still requires work if they want eBooks to become a significant section of the book sales market. I'd say the sales were poor considering the global nature of PDM's potential market and the number of PalmOS and PPC devices out there.
OB
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RE: Value?
What prevents your wife from installing the book on her Palm and your inputting the unlock key. Heck she probably knows your credit card number as well as you do and could do it herself. :)
I actually I think that, as DRM goes, eReader/PalmReader/Peanut Press' is pretty inobtrusive. There is no limit to the number of machines it can be used on, there is no limit to the number of times it can be copied or read and as long as you are willing to share your credit card number the book can be shared. Certainly, Microsoft's e-book reader is not as flexible with its DRM.
In fact, it is this flexibility of the DRM that caused my preference for eReader e-books, as the DRM is 'livable'. While I would certainly prefer no DRM, I appreciate that the distributor needs to provide some obstacle to the wholesale theft of this intellectual property. The DRM they have instituted does allow you to share the book just not indiscriminately (assuming that you would not put your credit card number on just anyone's Palm).
In the Spirit of Umoja,
Ronin
RE: Value?
OB
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Any device can have one more useful feature added.
HandEra Moderator at [url="http://www.PalmVenue.com/forum"]PalmVenue[/url]
RE: Value?
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"There's always hope, because it's the one thing nobody's figured out how to kill yet." -- Galen, Crusade (B5)
Not the largest eBookStore...
See also, the on-going promotions :
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/SpecialOffers.asp
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Everything Keeps Coming Around!
BTW, I just noticed that the eReader.com and ebooks.palmone.com stores don't share user accounts, so if you're already an eReader customer, you have to reregister on the new site, and your bookshelf doesn't transfer from one to the other.
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Ben Combee
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