Comments on: Opening up e-books for linux machines–and other legit purposes http://www.teleread.com/drm/opening-up-e-books-for-linux-machines-and-other-legit-purposes/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/drm/opening-up-e-books-for-linux-machines-and-other-legit-purposes/comment-page-1/#comment-416 David Rothman Mon, 30 May 2005 07:56:53 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=2721#comment-416 Many thanks for the tip. Alas, <a href="http://www.winehq.com/" rel="nofollow">Wine</a> doesn't work with everything. Let us know if you've personally tried it with Mobipocket or know of people who have. I see see there are <a href="http://www.mobipocket.com/en/ForumOld/Affiche.asp?num=2877&grp=1283&TopicID=16" rel="nofollow">issues</a> with <a href="http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/DownLoadPublisherStep1.asp" rel="nofollow">Mobipocket Publisher</a>, at least. - David Many thanks for the tip. Alas, Wine doesn’t work with everything. Let us know if you’ve personally tried it with Mobipocket or know of people who have. I see see there are issues with Mobipocket Publisher, at least. – David

]]> By: Marty http://www.teleread.com/drm/opening-up-e-books-for-linux-machines-and-other-legit-purposes/comment-page-1/#comment-414 Marty Mon, 30 May 2005 07:30:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=2721#comment-414 If you know about the program called "Wine" that runs windows programs on Linux, then give it a try, you can run run Mobipocket PC on your Linux machine !! If you know about the program called “Wine” that runs windows programs on Linux, then give it a try, you can run run Mobipocket PC on your Linux machine !!

]]> By: MaisonBisson.com - Broadcast Flag Smackdown http://www.teleread.com/drm/opening-up-e-books-for-linux-machines-and-other-legit-purposes/comment-page-1/#comment-229 MaisonBisson.com - Broadcast Flag Smackdown Mon, 09 May 2005 04:41:00 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=2721#comment-229 [...] from Jenny’s purchases? A few recent posts regarding DRM from TeleRead: one about DRM on Linux and another addressing DRM in libraries. MORE... Posted by:Casey [...] [...] from Jenny’s purchases? A few recent posts regarding DRM from TeleRead: one about DRM on Linux and another addressing DRM in libraries.

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]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/drm/opening-up-e-books-for-linux-machines-and-other-legit-purposes/comment-page-1/#comment-132 David Rothman Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:50:13 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=2721#comment-132 Hi, Laura. Agree totally about the desirability of Mobipocket being able to run on linux desktops, embedded linux, etc. Best solution, however, would be OpenReader. Mobipocket has problems--for example, lack of capabilities for truly heavy-duty stuff in <a href="http://www.stm-assoc.org/">STM publishing</a>. It would be easiest for Mobipocket just to start all over again with a crossplatform nonproprietary format. OpenReader would be willing to work with Mobipocket and others on DRM. While we're not the biggest fans of DRM, we have an e-commerce and security maven who is thoroughly versed in those issues. Yo, Amazon! You reading this by any chance? If so, you would do well to give OpenReader a good look before you learn a rather expensive lesson about the folly of a proprietary approach--especially when your Mobipocket is competing against Microsoft and Adobe. Hi, Laura. Agree totally about the desirability of Mobipocket being able to run on linux desktops, embedded linux, etc.

Best solution, however, would be OpenReader. Mobipocket has problems–for example, lack of capabilities for truly heavy-duty stuff in STM publishing. It would be easiest for Mobipocket just to start all over again with a crossplatform nonproprietary format. OpenReader would be willing to work with Mobipocket and others on DRM. While we’re not the biggest fans of DRM, we have an e-commerce and security maven who is thoroughly versed in those issues.

Yo, Amazon! You reading this by any chance? If so, you would do well to give OpenReader a good look before you learn a rather expensive lesson about the folly of a proprietary approach–especially when your Mobipocket is competing against Microsoft and Adobe.

]]> By: Laura http://www.teleread.com/drm/opening-up-e-books-for-linux-machines-and-other-legit-purposes/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Laura Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:44:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=2721#comment-131 With Mobipocket, the DRM is already cross-platform... Why not asking Mobi guys to port their Reader on Linux ? With Mobipocket, the DRM is already cross-platform… Why not asking Mobi guys to port their Reader on Linux ?

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