Got SNW 2016 through Kobo. I thought Pocket had dropped the DRM from Star Trek books, but this one's infested.
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I'm pretty sure it's only DRM free if you buy it through Simon and Schuster's website or startrekbooks.com; other sites still use their various proprietary formats.
Edit: Or no, not even that. It's only eBook exclusive releases that seem to be DRM-free, poking around on S&S's site.
That's not the impression I got from this article: http://www.startrek.com/article/pocket-offering-700-plus-trek-ebooks
Oh, I'm dumb, I didn't see the tab for format on S&S's site. Yeah, all the Trek books I checked that they have available for sale on their site are DRM-free. Through Amazon or Kobo or anywhere else, though, they aren't. And SNW 2016 isn't actually available for sale on their site, only vendor sites.
New arrivals Down Under:
New Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr
IDW's "Star Trek: Waypoint" comic (two covers!), William Shatner's "The Captains: A Journey Through Time" five-DVD set (contains "The Captains", "Chaos on the Bridge", "Captains Close Up", "Get a Life!" and "Mind Meld: Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime"), and "50 Artists, 50 Years" oversized hardcover art book to accompany the anniversary art exhibition.
New Labyrinth by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Star Trek writing team Paula Block & Terry Erdmann's new celebratory book about the movie "Labyrinth" has arrived, too. Terry tells me this is the first official sighting in the wild!
New Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr
IDW's "Star Trek: Waypoint" comic (two covers!), William Shatner's "The Captains: A Journey Through Time" five-DVD set (contains "The Captains", "Chaos on the Bridge", "Captains Close Up", "Get a Life!" and "Mind Meld: Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime"), and "50 Artists, 50 Years" oversized hardcover art book to accompany the anniversary art exhibition.
New Labyrinth by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Star Trek writing team Paula Block & Terry Erdmann's new celebratory book about the movie "Labyrinth" has arrived, too. Terry tells me this is the first official sighting in the wild!
Sorry, but that's not true. All the Trek books I've purchased through Kobo since the announcement Steve Roby linked to have been DRM-free.
As a random example, here's the eBook Details from Kobo's site for Articles of the Federation:
Compare to the details for SNW2016:
I suspect the difference is due to the different imprint.
Or do you mean that as long as the title is *available* on the S&S site, then it is still DRM-free even if you purchase it elsewhere? If I've misinterpreted, my apologies.
I like how they simplified the imprint over the years. I'm sure everybody knows what they mean by Pocket Star.Sorry, but that's not true. All the Trek books I've purchased through Kobo since the announcement Steve Roby linked to have been DRM-free.
As a random example, here's the eBook Details from Kobo's site for Articles of the Federation:
Compare to the details for SNW2016:
I suspect the difference is due to the different imprint.
Or do you mean that as long as the title is *available* on the S&S site, then it is still DRM-free even if you purchase it elsewhere? If I've misinterpreted, my apologies.
Sorry, but that's not true. All the Trek books I've purchased through Kobo since the announcement Steve Roby linked to have been DRM-free.
As a random example, here's the eBook Details from Kobo's site for Articles of the Federation:
Compare to the details for SNW2016:
I suspect the difference is due to the different imprint.
Or do you mean that as long as the title is *available* on the S&S site, then it is still DRM-free even if you purchase it elsewhere? If I've misinterpreted, my apologies.
Oh, nope, that was my mistake entirely. At first I assumed Steve's problem was because it was an off-site purchase, then I saw that SNW 2016 wasn't DRM-free on S&S's site, but I forgot to update my assumption and check the DRM status for off-site purchases.
It may look like that, but my understanding is that Pocket Star is a separate S&S imprint for eBooks, which includes multiple genres. It's not just a shortening of "Pocket Books/Star Trek".
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/...icle/51842-pocket-star-to-be-e-book-only.html
By contrast, the usual Star Trek eBooks continue to be published under the Pocket Books imprint... even the eBook exclusives, if Time Lock is any indication.
That's why I thought the difference in DRM might be related to being released under a separate imprint.
Huh, I did not see that coming. I mean we are talking about the same people who came up with "A Star Trek: The Next Generation: Time #8: A Time to Heal".
In fact, it used to be the Pocket imprint for non-Star Trek media tie-ins. The Marvel Comics-based novels that Pocket did in the '00s (including my X-Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder) were published under the Pocket Star imprint, and they never even got e-book releases, ironically.
I think general media tie-ins are under the Gallery imprint now, which may be why they reassigned Pocket Star to e-books.
Well that makes sense. In the same way that having "water" as your first association to "desert".
I think it's more like "star" in the sense of a celebrity or a leading cast member of a production. That does make sense for a media tie-in line. The only reason Star Trek wasn't included under Pocket Star was because it had been its own distinct imprint since before there was a Pocket Star.
Wasn't Pocket's brief foray into original sf also under the "Pocket Star" label? Mine are boxed up, I think, but I'm pretty sure both Dayton's The Last World War and Keith's Dragon Precinct were Pocket Star novels.
Ah, that could actually make sense. I rarely think of the word star as celebrity. My first association ist Trek, then Gate, then Wars, then Astrology, then celebrities.
What about stars as physical, astronomical objects out in space? That is the kind of star that the first few things you list are named after.
Er, yes that type of star does too exist, good point. Classic case of overseeing the obvious on my part.
Mal 'ne paar Fotos von den letzten Einkaufen 
in Den Haag, und in Groningen. Bin ja in Den Haag gefahren damit ich ein Studienbuch kaufen konnte, aber Star Trek war wichtiger
The Star Trek 'Savage Trade' I found abandoned in the used-book section of the American Book Center in The Hague! I just couldn't leave it there so alone.
in Den Haag, und in Groningen. Bin ja in Den Haag gefahren damit ich ein Studienbuch kaufen konnte, aber Star Trek war wichtiger The Star Trek 'Savage Trade' I found abandoned in the used-book section of the American Book Center in The Hague! I just couldn't leave it there so alone.
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