/"The TeleRead take:/ Steve Levy’s fawning Newsweek story on the Kindle downplayed the hassles of DRM <http://www.newsweek.com/id/70983>, but to his credit, even he complained about it in a Live Talk session <http://www.newsweek.com/id/70858> later on. And Levy wrote among other things in a sidebar <http://www.newsweek.com/id/71251>: “Though the copy protection doesn’t affect book-reading, it is limiting, and annoying. You can’t print out a passage, e-mail it to a friend or copy it into a document. You can’t lend a book to someone, or sell it after you’re finished.” Worse, as I see it, your book is tied to your Kindle and its e-mail account, even if you can share the account with family members. What about your other machines, present and future? Oh, and yes, copy protection /does/ affect book reading since you may not enjoy access to the text in the future if tech changes or a company goes out of business or backs off from e-books <http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/16/another-report-of-a-kindle-launch-monday-now-if-only-amazons-pr-lady-can-learn-a-few-manners-and-jeff-bezos-can-reaffirm-his-long-term-commitment-to-books/>. That’s no small effect. Perhaps it’s time for Jeff Bezos to experiment with social DRM <http://www.google.com/search?q=%22social+drm%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a>."
Seems the Han Lin/Jinke e-book reader has a big advantage without the "annoying" DRM. And the new model does PDF as well while the Kindle will not. -Ken _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
