Comments on: My e-book wishes for 2010: Cheaper gizmos, better screens, more e-titles, DRM back-offs, ePub for the Kindle, TeleRead progress http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-e-book-wishes-for-2010-cheaper-gizmos-better-screens-more-e-titles-drm-back-offs-epub-for-the-kindle-teleread-progress/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:44:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-e-book-wishes-for-2010-cheaper-gizmos-better-screens-more-e-titles-drm-back-offs-epub-for-the-kindle-teleread-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-1151562 David Rothman Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:43:15 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/25/my-e-book-wishes-for-2010-cheaper-gizmos-better-screens-more-e-titles-drm-back-offs-epub-for-the-kindle-teleread-progress/#comment-1151562 Ficbot: All great points. An end to geo restrictions is long overdue! Merry XMAS and thanks for all your contributions to TeleBlog! (Same to Paul Biba, Chris Meadows, Court Merrigan, Kat Meyer, Robert Nagle, Steve Jordan, and others, including our valuable commenters!) David Ficbot: All great points. An end to geo restrictions is long overdue!

Merry XMAS and thanks for all your contributions to TeleBlog!

(Same to Paul Biba, Chris Meadows, Court Merrigan, Kat Meyer, Robert Nagle, Steve Jordan, and others, including our valuable commenters!)

David

]]> By: ficbot http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-e-book-wishes-for-2010-cheaper-gizmos-better-screens-more-e-titles-drm-back-offs-epub-for-the-kindle-teleread-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-1151561 ficbot Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:37:37 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/25/my-e-book-wishes-for-2010-cheaper-gizmos-better-screens-more-e-titles-drm-back-offs-epub-for-the-kindle-teleread-progress/#comment-1151561 If epub ever comes to the Kindle, that may sway me over, although I do have some privacy concerns about the Kindle. I have a ot of non-Amazon content, and I don't want to get in trouble for it. I hope we finally see a consumer revolt about geographical restrictions, and perhaps the beginnings of an end to them. I would also like to see authors banding together and bringing about some change, both for themselves and for readers. I remember questioning why the RWA does not do this, and a commenter here said that is not their function. Well, maybe it should be :) These authors need to make sure their readers can get the books they want, it's profit to them to do so. If epub ever comes to the Kindle, that may sway me over, although I do have some privacy concerns about the Kindle. I have a ot of non-Amazon content, and I don’t want to get in trouble for it.

I hope we finally see a consumer revolt about geographical restrictions, and perhaps the beginnings of an end to them.

I would also like to see authors banding together and bringing about some change, both for themselves and for readers. I remember questioning why the RWA does not do this, and a commenter here said that is not their function. Well, maybe it should be :) These authors need to make sure their readers can get the books they want, it’s profit to them to do so.

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