Comments on: Walking the ePub walk with The Solomon Scandals—and fighting DRM along the way http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/16/walking-the-epub-walk-with-the-solomon-scandals/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:23:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Barry McMullin http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/16/walking-the-epub-walk-with-the-solomon-scandals/comment-page-1/#comment-1013264 Barry McMullin Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:38:23 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/16/walking-the-epub-walk-with-the-solomon-scandals/#comment-1013264 Hey, very nice and very encouraging. But what on earth is this "*Adobe* ePub" format that Books on Board is offering!? ... please please please can we strangle this at birth? ("ePub" or "IDPF ePub" but never ever "ACME-wannabe-monopolist-randomly-non-interoperable-variant-of ePub"...) Hey, very nice and very encouraging. But what on earth is this “*Adobe* ePub” format that Books on Board is offering!? … please please please can we strangle this at birth? (“ePub” or “IDPF ePub” but never ever “ACME-wannabe-monopolist-randomly-non-interoperable-variant-of ePub”…)

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/16/walking-the-epub-walk-with-the-solomon-scandals/comment-page-1/#comment-1013183 David Rothman Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:25:47 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/16/walking-the-epub-walk-with-the-solomon-scandals/#comment-1013183 Court and John: C. You're right, Court. Nothing's definite. The good news is that many and perhaps most of the small e-publishers Get It. J. A forthcoming version of Fictionwise's eReader will work with ePub. Stay tuned. Thanks, both of you! David Court and John:

C. You’re right, Court. Nothing’s definite. The good news is that many and perhaps most of the small e-publishers Get It.

J. A forthcoming version of Fictionwise’s eReader will work with ePub. Stay tuned.

Thanks, both of you!
David

]]> By: John Hagewood http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/16/walking-the-epub-walk-with-the-solomon-scandals/comment-page-1/#comment-1013176 John Hagewood Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:04:22 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/16/walking-the-epub-walk-with-the-solomon-scandals/#comment-1013176 Congrats on this David! Just wanted to point out that when one buys the "multiformat" version on Fictionwise (my personal favorite seller) one can download any (or all!) of these formats (all without DRM): Adobe Acrobat (PDF) eReader (PDB) Palm Doc (PDB) Rocket/REB1100 (RB) Microsoft Reader (LIT) PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible Franklin eBookMan (FUB) hiebook (KML) Sony Reader (LRF) iSilo (PDB) Mobipocket (PRC) Kindle Compatible (MOBI) OEBFF Format (IMP) WOW! everything BUT epub, and I'm sure they are probably working on that :-) Ok, that being said, WHY would ANYONE buy this book from the Amazon store and ONLY be able to read it on their Kindle, when they can get the Kindle-compatible non-DRM Mobi from Fictionwise for .30 more, and get all those addition formats for nothing (one of which, LIT, works extremely well on Stanza/iPhone) ? Oh, I forgot, "convenience" :-D Congrats on this David!

Just wanted to point out that when one buys the “multiformat” version on Fictionwise (my personal favorite seller) one can download any (or all!) of these formats (all without DRM):

Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
eReader (PDB)
Palm Doc (PDB)
Rocket/REB1100 (RB)
Microsoft Reader (LIT)
PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible
Franklin eBookMan (FUB)
hiebook (KML)
Sony Reader (LRF)
iSilo (PDB)
Mobipocket (PRC)
Kindle Compatible (MOBI)
OEBFF Format (IMP)

WOW! everything BUT epub, and I’m sure they are probably working on that :-)

Ok, that being said, WHY would ANYONE buy this book from the Amazon store and ONLY be able to read it on their Kindle, when they can get the Kindle-compatible non-DRM Mobi from Fictionwise for .30 more, and get all those addition formats for nothing (one of which, LIT, works extremely well on Stanza/iPhone) ?

Oh, I forgot, “convenience” :-D

]]> By: Court http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/16/walking-the-epub-walk-with-the-solomon-scandals/comment-page-1/#comment-1013170 Court Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:05:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/16/walking-the-epub-walk-with-the-solomon-scandals/#comment-1013170 Thanks for posting this, David. Hope it sells well. Ultimately, I tend to think you'll win the DRM fight with publishers, as they will come to their senses. But it's certainly not guaranteed. Thanks for posting this, David. Hope it sells well. Ultimately, I tend to think you’ll win the DRM fight with publishers, as they will come to their senses. But it’s certainly not guaranteed.

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