Comments on: Sony inks content pacts with e-book stores—and indie brick-and-mortar stores: Libraries mentioned, too http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:23:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mags http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-1134982 Mags Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:22:01 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/25/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/#comment-1134982 I downloaded one of the "free" Google scanned books while testing the Barnes & Noble ebook application, and it had tons of OCR errors. It had not been corrected. No idea if Sony has done something different. I downloaded one of the “free” Google scanned books while testing the Barnes & Noble ebook application, and it had tons of OCR errors. It had not been corrected. No idea if Sony has done something different.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-1134694 David Rothman Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:45:02 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/25/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/#comment-1134694 Alan and Pond... Alan: But in the case of best-sellers, most books by far will be DRMed. Obviously nonDRMed ePub is...nonproprietary. I know you know this--I just want to make it clear for others. Pond: Google's proofing is rather problematic. Still, given the hassles of PDF, I vastly prefer to read the files in ePub. Thanks, David Alan and Pond…

Alan: But in the case of best-sellers, most books by far will be DRMed. Obviously nonDRMed ePub is…nonproprietary. I know you know this–I just want to make it clear for others.

Pond: Google’s proofing is rather problematic. Still, given the hassles of PDF, I vastly prefer to read the files in ePub.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: pond http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-1134690 pond Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:39:24 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/25/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/#comment-1134690 I'm really curious about the 'one million EPUB public domain titles from Google free at the Sony site.' Does anybody know how goog converted the OCR into EPUB for these titles? And whether goog did any copyediting or corrections on the OCR? For myself, the Google books I've read were readable in PDF images, but the raw text left a good deal to be desired. I hope somebody has cleaned all those up, but with a figure so impossibly high -- 1,000,000 -- it doesn't seem likely. I’m really curious about the ‘one million EPUB public domain titles from Google free at the Sony site.’

Does anybody know how goog converted the OCR into EPUB for these titles? And whether goog did any copyediting or corrections on the OCR?

For myself, the Google books I’ve read were readable in PDF images, but the raw text left a good deal to be desired. I hope somebody has cleaned all those up, but with a figure so impossibly high — 1,000,000 — it doesn’t seem likely.

]]> By: Alan Wallcraft http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-1134659 Alan Wallcraft Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:35:28 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/25/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/#comment-1134659 Any ePub device can read Sony's free (DRM-free) ePubs, but you need a Windows PC (or now a Mac) to download them. Any ePub device can read Sony’s free (DRM-free) ePubs, but you need a Windows PC (or now a Mac) to download them.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-1134641 David Rothman Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:17:23 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/25/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/#comment-1134641 Our earlier observations certainly apply, Aaron. If Amazon does ePub for the Kindle, you won't be able to read it [Adobe-DRMed ePub] unless Amazon uses Adobe's DRM. ePub tainted with DRM is NOT an open format. I'm tired, tired, tired of the games that vendors play with consumers and all-to-trusting members of the press. This is, of course, why I conspicuously labeled the above document a news release. Now the news conference has concluded, and it's the time for independent analysis---I applaud your reminding us of the proprietary DRM issue. David Our earlier observations certainly apply, Aaron. If Amazon does ePub for the Kindle, you won’t be able to read it [Adobe-DRMed ePub] unless Amazon uses Adobe’s DRM. ePub tainted with DRM is NOT an open format. I’m tired, tired, tired of the games that vendors play with consumers and all-to-trusting members of the press. This is, of course, why I conspicuously labeled the above document a news release. Now the news conference has concluded, and it’s the time for independent analysis—I applaud your reminding us of the proprietary DRM issue. David

]]> By: Aaron Pressman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-1134615 Aaron Pressman Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:13:21 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/25/sony-inks-content-pacts-with-e-book-stores-and-indie-brick-and-mortar-stores/#comment-1134615 "read them on any EPUB-compatible device" Is this strictly accurate? I thought Sony was wrapping EPUB in Adobe's DRM so not every EPUB-compatible device would be able to read Sony ebooks. Anyone? Did this come up at today's presentation? Thanks. “read them on any EPUB-compatible device”

Is this strictly accurate? I thought Sony was wrapping EPUB in Adobe’s DRM so not every EPUB-compatible device would be able to read Sony ebooks. Anyone? Did this come up at today’s presentation? Thanks.

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