Comments on: E-book-friendly iPod said to be on the way–and this rumor sounds true

By: mokh

mokh — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:11:19 +0000

hi
i have a mp4 player and he is have a option of e-book and i cant active this option pecouse i dont have any aidia about this option how can work on mp4
egypt

By: !jentery! » Let Me Be Old for a Minute

!jentery! » Let Me Be Old for a Minute — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:11:08 +0000

[...] I think about how organized my reading could be — about the Google notebook equivalents available to the e-book reader, the infinite number of possible links and e-references to other e-texts, and the embarrassingly nerdy folder and annotated bib system I could generate — or how convenient, efficient, and space-conserving e-books on my iPod would be, not to mention the opening of the e-book market to wifi. [...]

By: Ervino

Ervino — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:33:29 +0000

And don’t forget that Apple was the first company to have a complete reading & publishing ebook software, back in the ‘90 with the NewtonBook software for the NewtonOS ( http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/newton-faq-books.html ), IMHO still one of the best ebook software around even today…

Cheers
Ervino

By: Brian Carnell

Brian Carnell — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:50:20 +0000

How useful this will be depends on how Apple treats DRM. With both Music and Video, you *can* buy DRM-ed AAC and MP4 videos if you want to. But you can also rip your CDs to non-DRMed MP3 and rip your DVDs to non-DRMed MP4.

Lets hope Apple follows this and has their DRMed format but also supports open formats as well (I’d be happy with straight HTML support).