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Archive for 'Adobe'Jul
24
Sony Reader has released a cover for the Sony Reader that contains an integrated light. It’s like the Light Wedge and runs off two AA batteries. It’s a beautifully elegant solution and I would love to see one of these suckers in person. Click on the MobileRead link to see the picture. Jul
24
This is really, really good news for ebook readers. The Sony Reader will now accept and read encrypted PDFs and the new ePub format. I believe that you should be able to access prior purchased Adobe PDFs and future purchases of Adobe PDF on the Sony Reader. Opening up the reader to accept other DRM’ed platforms is a big step toward making it easier for a consumer to adapt to ereading. Feb
15
Via TeleRead: Fictionwise is offering it’s recently acquired eReader Pro software free. This offer includes all versions. Dec
02
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Tagged: Adobe, DRM, IDPF, Kindle, Major League Baseball Filed under: Ebooks, Letters of Opinion, Misc
MLB Makes Fools out of Fans In 2003, Major League Baseball offered game footage for fans to download to their personal computers for $3.95 each. Red Sox fan, Allan Wood, took advantage of the digital offerings and purchased nearly $300 worth of digital video game footage. The video was downloadable to the computer and viewed via Windows Media Player. The video was also protected with a “DDS” system of digital rights management (DRM). As we have talked about before, DRM is a software key that controls use of a digital item. A digital item (with DRM) is “locked” and certain “keys” are given to the user to unlock and then use the digital item. In 2007, MLB decided to abandon the DDS system of DRM, essentially it changed its locks and never told any of the users about it. When Wood (and presumably other fans) went to view past footage that he had paid for and archived on CDs, he was informed he didn’t have the right license any longer. The purchase agreement stated that the license to watch the downloaded video would “exist forever” on the machine that … Jun
20
Adobe released its Adobe Digital Editions 1.0 that had previously been released in beta form. I’ve tried out the beta form and with properly formatted pdfs, the books looked great. With older books, however, it struggles with the same issues of reflow and readability. Still, if the IDPF can convince every publisher to go to a unified standard such as the IDPF Open Publication Standard (OPS) for XHTML-based re-flowable eBooks, then one more barrier to the ebook industry will fall. A big barrier. Also included in the press release was a notice that mobile editions of the Adobe Digital Editions were in the works including one that would be compatible with the Sony EReader. I won’t be changing preferred formats just yet, but this is definitely a good development. |
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