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How you can read DRMed bestsellers on your Eee PC
May 3, 2008 | 1:17 pm
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By David Rothman
Good news, Linux fans. McQ says he got eReader running under Wine on the Asus Eee PC “without much trouble.” Meanwhile, remember that the $400 4G Windows version of the Eee PC can almost surely run programs that read DRMed books, as Tony Rabig notes. Try the Mobipocket program.
That said, wouldn’t the e-book world be better off without this operating system/DRM/eBabel connection? Furthermore, remember that Wine can be tricky to get going for certain Windows apps.
Related: Asus Eee PC: A real computer for the frugal e-book fan on the go, by Ficbot.
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“That said, wouldn’t the e-book world be better off without this operating system/DRM/eBabel connection?”
Oh, absolutely. Explain to me who is being ‘protected’ by this particular reader having THREE mobile devices she has paid for, none of which can read downloads from the public library?
My sympathy, Ficbot. As a taxpayer you’re PAYING for those DRM-infested books, like it or not. This is exactly why I’m calling for public libraries to back off from DRM and think about new business models. – David