Comments on: The locked-up Bible saga: Mobipocket format available—but it’s probably DRMed

By: Court

Court — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:23:07 +0000

John and Yoda47, you're right that the ESV is available in many formats, particularly online. As are many other versions of the Bible. The issue here and here revolves around the Kindle and Amazon - and the fact that Crossway got their "free" (as in money, not content) Bible featured on the official Amazon Kindle blog, which is what piqued my interest, since any Kindle file is by default DRMed. Thanks for the links. In any case, in general Mobipocket requires that books in their Mobi store be DRMed, although I don't know for certain that this is the case. I do know that the downloaded sample is not a universal format like, say, .txt or PDF. But that's a whole other issue. I'd just like to reiterate that as far as I can tell Crossway is doing what they can to get their Bible out there; it is the distributors holding up the free culture show. ePub, indeed.

By: Yoda47

Yoda47 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:07:45 +0000

http://www.web-books.com/BookInfo.php?BookID=124

ePub, anyone?

By: HeavyG

HeavyG — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:10:37 +0000

John, you must have missed Mssr. Merrigan’s earlier rants on the Crossway bible “controversy”.

While it was pointed out earlier that Crossway published the ESV in many formats and it was also freely available on the web he couldn’t help but wrap all that up into an “evil Amazon/DRM” tirade (as is the practice on this blog).

By: John Mark Ockerbloom

John Mark Ockerbloom — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:33:35 +0000

This appears to be the English Standard Version translation. If you're online, you can read this version for free (or for the cost of your data usage, if you're on an IPhone or other metered online device): http://www.esv.org/ It's also freely readable along with lots of other translations at the Bible Gateway site.