Comments on: How ‘cut and paste’ could help e-book sales http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/how-cut-and-paste-can-help-e-book-sales/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sain http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/how-cut-and-paste-can-help-e-book-sales/comment-page-1/#comment-1198983 Sain Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:47:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=2538#comment-1198983 As a teacher we already have class sets of books that I want to cut and paste from and so I feel limited by and grudging of a limiting to 10% . The whole use of an e reader for me is to annotate and share passages to save me retyping for student activities. If an e reader can't do this then I will have to stick to typing up quotations which frankly is a waste of previous time. As a teacher we already have class sets of books that I want to cut and paste from and so I feel limited by and grudging of a limiting to 10% . The whole use of an e reader for me is to annotate and share passages to save me retyping for student activities. If an e reader can’t do this then I will have to stick to typing up quotations which frankly is a waste of previous time.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/how-cut-and-paste-can-help-e-book-sales/comment-page-1/#comment-46 David Rothman Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:49:58 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=2538#comment-46 Hi, Bob. I appreciated your informative comments. Here's your answer about eReaderPro--and, of course, I'll supply it through a little copying and pasting. In this case the direct quote is from PC Magazine: <blockquote>eReader Pro Motricity's (formerly Palm Digital Media) eReader Pro (www.palmdigitalmedia.com/pro...) is the second-most feature rich program in the commercial reader category. The latest version of this program has some nice improvements over the previous one. The lack of a copy and paste feature used to drive me crazy. The latest version includes copy and paste, but Motricity may have gone a little too far with it in the opposite direction because you automatically get a citation with whatever you copy and paste. While attribution is sometimes needed and useful, there ought to be a way to turn it off when not needed.</blockquote> http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives/feb05/ebookreaders.aspx It's great to see eReader moving a bit more in the direction of user-friendliness--so that legitimate users like you can do the fair use routine. Of course, all kinds of definitions exist of fair use, and the article's author may have a different one from yours. Still, it's interesting that you yourself have not been up against a word limit for copying. By the way, eReader in general has a rep for much-gentler DRM than, say, Microsoft Reader--unless you're a cracker, in which case the Draconian Reader ends up being a lamb. The Reader instead loves to do a doberman act with honest users interested in such crimes as wanting to make backups for personal use. Thanks, David Hi, Bob. I appreciated your informative comments. Here’s your answer about eReaderPro–and, of course, I’ll supply it through a little copying and pasting. In this case the direct quote is from PC Magazine:

eReader Pro

Motricity’s (formerly Palm Digital Media) eReader Pro (www.palmdigitalmedia.com/pro…) is the second-most feature rich program in the commercial reader category. The latest version of this program has some nice improvements over the previous one. The lack of a copy and paste feature used to drive me crazy. The latest version includes copy and paste, but Motricity may have gone a little too far with it in the opposite direction because you automatically get a citation with whatever you copy and paste. While attribution is sometimes needed and useful, there ought to be a way to turn it off when not needed.

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives/feb05/ebookreaders.aspx

It’s great to see eReader moving a bit more in the direction of user-friendliness–so that legitimate users like you can do the fair use routine. Of course, all kinds of definitions exist of fair use, and the article’s author may have a different one from yours. Still, it’s interesting that you yourself have not been up against a word limit for copying.

By the way, eReader in general has a rep for much-gentler DRM than, say, Microsoft Reader–unless you’re a cracker, in which case the Draconian Reader ends up being a lamb. The Reader instead loves to do a doberman act with honest users interested in such crimes as wanting to make backups for personal use.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: Robert Anstett http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/how-cut-and-paste-can-help-e-book-sales/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Robert Anstett Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:59:29 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=2538#comment-45 I am a bit confused by this after reading the article in Discover today. I own well over a hundred eBooks that I have purchased through ereader.com and I can copy and paste quotes from the books that I want to save. Perhaps only because I purchased the full version of the reader? I did a quick search of the help files and it does not indicate any limit to the amount I can copy and paste. I only use the function spareingly, to collect a couple of quotes to use on discussion boards. Exactly what the use is expected to do. BOB I am a bit confused by this after reading the article in Discover today.

I own well over a hundred eBooks that I have purchased through ereader.com and I can copy and paste quotes from the books that I want to save.

Perhaps only because I purchased the full version of the reader? I did a quick search of the help files and it does not indicate any limit to the amount I can copy and paste.

I only use the function spareingly, to collect a couple of quotes to use on discussion boards. Exactly what the use is expected to do.

BOB

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