Comments on: Digital Book Upgrades at Amazon.com http://system13.org/2009/04/08/digital-book-upgrades-at-amazoncom/ Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:12:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Josh http://system13.org/2009/04/08/digital-book-upgrades-at-amazoncom/#comment-2006 Josh Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:17:08 +0000 http://system13.org/?p=847#comment-2006 Yeah, it's a difficult situation. To make a digital book easily accessible on multiple platforms, they more or less have to remove any protection from it. However, it seems a little strange that they're okay with selling DRM-free MP3s, which can easily be thrown onto the net, while not being okay with selling DRM-free books. Yeah, it’s a difficult situation. To make a digital book easily accessible on multiple platforms, they more or less have to remove any protection from it.

However, it seems a little strange that they’re okay with selling DRM-free MP3s, which can easily be thrown onto the net, while not being okay with selling DRM-free books.

]]> By: Joshua J. Slone http://system13.org/2009/04/08/digital-book-upgrades-at-amazoncom/#comment-2005 Joshua J. Slone Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:47:25 +0000 http://system13.org/?p=847#comment-2005 "It makes sense, though; if they allowed PDF downloads they’d be all over the internet in a matter of hours." Well, there are ways of encrypting a PDF so only people using their account on Adobe Digital Editions can use it. That's limiting in its own way, though; I ran across it when trying to see if there was any way I could buy legit copies of digital books and put them in formats for use on PSP. Buuut with things like that in place it's just not doable. “It makes sense, though; if they allowed PDF downloads they’d be all over the internet in a matter of hours.”

Well, there are ways of encrypting a PDF so only people using their account on Adobe Digital Editions can use it. That’s limiting in its own way, though; I ran across it when trying to see if there was any way I could buy legit copies of digital books and put them in formats for use on PSP. Buuut with things like that in place it’s just not doable.

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