Dead Tree Society, rejoice!!!!!
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Thanks for the tip . . . and this gives me an opportunity to (A) clarify my position and (2) suck up to KRAD.Rosalind said:Scott from the other thread I know you're using Adobe, so I'd like to say that it's not true for all formats. I chose ereader books from the beginning mainly because they can be easily ported and backed up etc. and when I recently bought a new laptop I had absolultey no trouble moving my files across and opening them again. Okay, you can't print them, or lend them out (which I don't do with any of my books anyway), but I can take them anywhere with the laptop or move them from computer to computer, and can have them 'forever' by burning onto a CD, so I'm pretty happy with this format.
Given that I'm a major geekboy who often feels that he was sent to Earth a few centuries too soon, I inherently love just about e-anything. For all my bills that have the option, I've gone paperless. I'm paperless with my bank, I pay as many bills as possible online, etc. It's geeky, good for the environment, and saves postage--a great combination. The creation and distribution of eBooks is great. It's once I have the thing on my iMac where things go south--for one thing, Adobe. I'll say that again. Adobe. Their buggy and counterintuitive website seems incapable of sharing rights with my iBook, so I can't go mobile with anything I bought on my iMac. And most of the time I have for reading is on the bus to and from the day job (and I wouldn't really want to take my laptop on the bus every day). When I'm on the computer at home, I'm usually writing, paying bills, and catching up on the TrekBBS. So a combination of Adobe issues and the way I need to organize my time makes it difficult for me to keep up with the eBooks. Nevertheless, I still whole-heartedly support the format. :thumbsup:
Sounds like the first thing I need to do is shift to eReader. I know that my opportunity to read them would multiply, and there's way too much really cool merde coming out from the house of KRAD for me to stand around waiting for paper. I still wouldn't want to have my laptop on the bus all the time, though. Steve Jobs, I want an iPadd!
I sucked up to you in a different post while more fully explaining my eBook issues before I noticed this post . . . I do want a PDA, but keep hoping that Apple will make one or add even more PDA-like features to the iPod. Mac users--what's the best PDA for the Mac? Please ignore that question if it's too off topic . . .KRAD said:
^ They're just as easily portable as print books if you read them on your PDA. Lighter, too.
Scott, depends how much you're looking to spend. There are some PalmOS devices that sell for $100 or less.
Anything in the newer Palm family should have a hot-synch software that works on Mac. I have a Treo 650 cell phone/PDA, and the interface between it and my MacBook Pro is just fine.
Last I heard, PocketPC (Windows Mobile) devices needed some help to interface to a Mac. Might not be worth it, up to you.
Anything in the newer Palm family should have a hot-synch software that works on Mac. I have a Treo 650 cell phone/PDA, and the interface between it and my MacBook Pro is just fine.
Last I heard, PocketPC (Windows Mobile) devices needed some help to interface to a Mac. Might not be worth it, up to you.
MacBook Pro . . .
. . . what were we talking about again? 
I really should get a Palm. I'm certain that the day after I do Apple will come out with a full-PDA iPod, and the Mac Faithful will bow down to me in thanks.
so, with 66 e-books and these two taking us up to 49, then there should be, like, 2 more after that to get us to the relaunch, yes?
Iff the DMCA is unconstitutional, failure to follow the act is indeed legal. Any act of Congress which contradicts the Constitution is not legal or binding, despite its appearance of the force of law.
Apropos, noncompliance with the act is a neat way to begin a legal test.
(Note that none of the above constitutes a legal opinion regarding the constitutionality of the DRMA.)
The hacking in question is of a work that has been purchased by the individual in question, and is being moved from one software encoding system to another for the private use of that person. While that action may or may not be legal, if I read the situation correctly, you, the author, have been compensated for the single copy of the work the individual possesses.
KRAD said:
The next planned book after Creative Couplings will be called Wounds and will include all the DS9 crossovers, #50, 51, 54, 55, and 56.
That's five stories. Has it beeen determined how many stories in total will comprise Wounds? Including 52 and 53 would bring the total to seven, one more than the previous TPB reprints of SCE.
Yes, there'll be seven in Wounds, according to the current plan, which is actually one less than Aftermath has.
I'm basing the TPB reprints more on word count than number of eBooks. Aftermath has eight eBooks. Grand Designs will only have six -- but two of those are Orphans and Failsafe, which were two of the longer eBooks we've ever done. Creative Couplings and Wounds will both have seven.
The collection after that, The Cleanup, will only have four, but I have plans to fill out the book with other things, and then the next one would be What's Past, which obviously has six.
The word count I'm shooting for with each is roughly 150,000 words, although amusingly enough, despite being only six eBooks long, What's Past will be a little over 160,000. *glares at Schuster & Mollmann*
(Actually, that's not fair -- all but one of the What's Past stories were 25,000 words or over. But The Future Begins was the longest....)
Pocket is using an ebook format with DRM because it wants the DRM there. If Pocket should decide to stop offering ebooks in Microsoft Reader because it can't be sure the DRM is reliable, people who are legally buying the ebooks and not-entirely-legally (or legally, depending on the laws of their country) cracking the DRM so they can have the same legal usage rights with the ebook that they have with print books are thereby fucked. Not to mention anyone who prefers MS Reader and doesn't mess with the DRM.
Bringing this up here is a problem for Pocket employees, for Pocket writers, and for however many fans there may be who use DRM-cracking tools but do not redistribute ebooks or in any other way violate anyone's intellectual property rights.
Gee, with all those words, you'd think a few of them might have added up to something interesting or clever.
Well, if you'd never had any dealings with Mollmann or Schuster you might think that. The rest of us are not so lucky.
Well, if you'd never had any dealings with Mollmann or Schuster you might think that. The rest of us are not so lucky.
Pfft. I got a tragic death, in a book by the second coming of Peter David; I think that beats an Institute in a novella by the second coming of... well, I can't think of a writer I would want to insult that grievously.
Craig Hinton?