Comments on: eBook Plus Wants to Connect Readers to Authors, End Piracy

By: Dan Eldridge

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:39:38 +0000

Ha! No, I’m afraid it wasn’t a clever metaphor, Frank … although I kind of wish I could say it was! The truth is that I didn’t realize the video started up automatically—I pulled it from YouTube, I think, and I’ve never had that problem before. My apologies – and thanks for pointing it out. And because I don’t want to be accused of displaying poor ‘netiquette,’ I’ll remove it at once, posthaste. On the double, as it were. Without hesitation, and so forth.

By: Frank Lowney

Frank Lowney — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:28:16 +0000

Videos that start unbidden, such as in this article, are very bad form or poor netiquette if you prefer. Or was that an illustration of the intrusiveness potential of adverts in eBooks?

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:47:55 +0000

@rashkae: sorry totally wrong there, first: there are people going to jail, because of illegal filesharing, so if you think that breaking the law will remain mainstream: good luck with that.
I think the business model could work, as it works in Spotify with Music. 15M unique active users, 4M premium.

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:33:20 +0000

I think it would be horrible to be yanked out of the story I’m reading to view a commercial, no matter how brief. An image might be acceptable.

By: Deran

Deran — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:49:53 +0000

I could see this working for mass-market genre and micro-genre fiction and fan fiction. I could not see this being acceptable to someone wanting to read either classical or contemporary “literature”. And it seems if people can be sated with micro-genre pulp and fan fic via free sources, where is eBook Plus’ income stream?

By: rashkae

rashkae — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:24:03 +0000

Because streaming TV programs on station websites has worked so well to deter Television piracy on Inernet.. (spoiler, it hasn’t, although there is a percentage of viewers satisfied with that offering, who otherwise might have downloaded from other sources. Make of it what you will.)