Comments on: Will the Government Finally Do Something About DRM? http://dearauthor.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Fwordpress%2F2009%2F01%2F07%2Fwill-the-government-finally-do-something-about-drm%2F&seed_title=Will+the+Government+Finally+Do+Something+About+DRM%3F Book reviews, industry news, and commentary from a reader's point of view Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:42:15 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Estara http://dearauthor.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Fwordpress%2F2009%2F01%2F07%2Fwill-the-government-finally-do-something-about-drm%2F&seed_title=Will+the+Government+Finally+Do+Something+About+DRM%3F/comment-page-1/#comment-186780 Estara Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:26:06 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/01/07/will-the-government-finally-do-something-about-drm/#comment-186780 Oh it's getting better yet: did you see the info linked from BoingBoing.net that Fictionwise can no longer guarantee your third-party format ebooks since one of their third party server providers will be shutting down at the end of January? http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/08/ebook-drm-provider-g.html Ebook readers might want to back up locally as soon as possible. <blockquote>Hudson sez, "Fictionwise used Overdrive to provide DRM encrypted ebooks to their customers and Overdrive has informed them that they will be shutdown on 30 January with no reason given. Since Fictionwise doesn't have the decryption keys, they are not able to provide new versions of the books to all customers."</blockquote> Oh it’s getting better yet: did you see the info linked from BoingBoing.net that Fictionwise can no longer guarantee your third-party format ebooks since one of their third party server providers will be shutting down at the end of January?
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/08/ebook-drm-provider-g.html
Ebook readers might want to back up locally as soon as possible.

Hudson sez, “Fictionwise used Overdrive to provide DRM encrypted ebooks to their customers and Overdrive has informed them that they will be shutdown on 30 January with no reason given. Since Fictionwise doesn’t have the decryption keys, they are not able to provide new versions of the books to all customers.”

]]> By: DS http://dearauthor.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Fwordpress%2F2009%2F01%2F07%2Fwill-the-government-finally-do-something-about-drm%2F&seed_title=Will+the+Government+Finally+Do+Something+About+DRM%3F/comment-page-1/#comment-186370 DS Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:56:00 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/01/07/will-the-government-finally-do-something-about-drm/#comment-186370 Actually, you can listen to audible books on Kindle-- in fact Audible has a patch specifically for the Kindle. It eats the battery so I don't recommend it, but it can be done. ETA: I also meant to say this looks interesting and I will be following it and maybe submitting a comment or two. Actually, you can listen to audible books on Kindle– in fact Audible has a patch specifically for the Kindle. It eats the battery so I don’t recommend it, but it can be done.

ETA: I also meant to say this looks interesting and I will be following it and maybe submitting a comment or two.

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