Comments on: E-books and sex—plus info on the Pixelar e-reader, the BeBook2, and the de-DRMing of Pckt Publishing http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/07/e-books-and-sex-plus-info-on-the-pixelar-e-reader-the-bebook2-and-the-de-drming-of-pckt-publishing/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: -Thomas- http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/07/e-books-and-sex-plus-info-on-the-pixelar-e-reader-the-bebook2-and-the-de-drming-of-pckt-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-1019356 -Thomas- Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:24:46 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/07/e-books-and-sex-plus-info-on-the-pixelar-e-reader-the-bebook2-and-the-de-drming-of-pckt-publishing/#comment-1019356 Re: BeBook 2 It's in fact Adobe's DRM system. I tried to find out how much BeBook had to pay to gain access to the SDK, but the representative didn't want to tell. Re: BeBook 2
It’s in fact Adobe’s DRM system. I tried to find out how much BeBook had to pay to gain access to the SDK, but the representative didn’t want to tell.

]]> By: Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/07/e-books-and-sex-plus-info-on-the-pixelar-e-reader-the-bebook2-and-the-de-drming-of-pckt-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-1018533 Chris Meadows Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:17:32 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/07/e-books-and-sex-plus-info-on-the-pixelar-e-reader-the-bebook2-and-the-de-drming-of-pckt-publishing/#comment-1018533 I gather that romance/erotica books have long been a category of e-book publishing all their own. I seem to remember one of the first well-known e-publishers was the <a href="http://www.hardshell.com" rel="nofollow">Hard Shell Word Factory</a>, which began as a primarily romance publisher. At one point I think one of the options for getting your e-book from them was to have it mailed on floppy diskette! I gather that romance/erotica books have long been a category of e-book publishing all their own. I seem to remember one of the first well-known e-publishers was the Hard Shell Word Factory, which began as a primarily romance publisher. At one point I think one of the options for getting your e-book from them was to have it mailed on floppy diskette!

]]> By: Michael Harris http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/07/e-books-and-sex-plus-info-on-the-pixelar-e-reader-the-bebook2-and-the-de-drming-of-pckt-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-1018529 Michael Harris Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:08:59 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/07/e-books-and-sex-plus-info-on-the-pixelar-e-reader-the-bebook2-and-the-de-drming-of-pckt-publishing/#comment-1018529 Re: Sex in Ebooks. So, I downloaded a free ebook from Amazon the other day. While I was in the car driving home I turned on the text to speech feature so that it could read to me while I drove. I was quite surprised after about two pages when my urban fantasy book plot was interrupted by a sex-party scene. Then my mind flashed back to the last time I used the text-to-speech. I was working out at the gym, and I forgot my headphones. I turned on text to speech (on very low, of course) while I used the exercise bike. I would have been quite red-faced if my Kindle had announced the sex-party scene to the world. :) Re: Sex in Ebooks. So, I downloaded a free ebook from Amazon the other day. While I was in the car driving home I turned on the text to speech feature so that it could read to me while I drove. I was quite surprised after about two pages when my urban fantasy book plot was interrupted by a sex-party scene.

Then my mind flashed back to the last time I used the text-to-speech. I was working out at the gym, and I forgot my headphones. I turned on text to speech (on very low, of course) while I used the exercise bike. I would have been quite red-faced if my Kindle had announced the sex-party scene to the world. :)

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