Comments on: Dear Santa: Please make Harlequin FEEL customers’ pain, try ’social DRM,’ and push harder for e-book standards http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/13/dear-santa-please-make-harlequin-feel-customers-pain-try-social-drm-and-push-harder-for-e-book-standards/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:29:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/13/dear-santa-please-make-harlequin-feel-customers-pain-try-social-drm-and-push-harder-for-e-book-standards/#comment-765356 David Rothman Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:09:48 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/13/dear-santa-please-make-harlequin-feel-customers-pain-try-social-drm-and-push-harder-for-e-book-standards/#comment-765356 Kris: In fairness to Harlequin keep in mind that Adobe is the real problem here. I just hope Harlequin will encourage people to try alternatives. Meanwhile you might be able to simplify things with Adobe if you download to the computer you'll be using to read the book. But that can be a hassle for people with different machines. Adobe has rules that even I can't recall. I wonder if all the Adobe people can, either---all the more reason for Adobe to stop focusing so much on DRMed books. Thanks. David Kris: In fairness to Harlequin keep in mind that Adobe is the real problem here. I just hope Harlequin will encourage people to try alternatives. Meanwhile you might be able to simplify things with Adobe if you download to the computer you’ll be using to read the book. But that can be a hassle for people with different machines. Adobe has rules that even I can’t recall. I wonder if all the Adobe people can, either—all the more reason for Adobe to stop focusing so much on DRMed books. Thanks. David

]]> By: Kris http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/13/dear-santa-please-make-harlequin-feel-customers-pain-try-social-drm-and-push-harder-for-e-book-standards/#comment-764149 Kris Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:12:53 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/13/dear-santa-please-make-harlequin-feel-customers-pain-try-social-drm-and-push-harder-for-e-book-standards/#comment-764149 I have bought a few e-books and gotten quite a few from authors as well. I do not have an e-book reader and have gotten all of mine in pdf and have not had any issues. However, I have never ordered books from Harlequin. And now am wary to do so. I have bought a few e-books and gotten quite a few from authors as well. I do not have an e-book reader and have gotten all of mine in pdf and have not had any issues. However, I have never ordered books from Harlequin. And now am wary to do so.

]]> By: Joseph Gray http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/13/dear-santa-please-make-harlequin-feel-customers-pain-try-social-drm-and-push-harder-for-e-book-standards/#comment-762793 Joseph Gray Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:24:02 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/13/dear-santa-please-make-harlequin-feel-customers-pain-try-social-drm-and-push-harder-for-e-book-standards/#comment-762793 I had the same experience with a PDF that I purchased. Once only. Never again will I purchase an ebook in PDF format. My first choice is always to purchase ebooks without DRM. If I have to purchase a DRM-infested ebook, we all know which formats can be "dealt with", so that they can be read more easily. I had the same experience with a PDF that I purchased. Once only. Never again will I purchase an ebook in PDF format.

My first choice is always to purchase ebooks without DRM. If I have to purchase a DRM-infested ebook, we all know which formats can be “dealt with”, so that they can be read more easily.

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