"Re/pondez SVP" writes: [ advocates DRM software which seems to be taken straight out of Stallman's dystopian "The Right To Read" essay... ] I'm sure you have...
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Jim Drew / Ciao! Publ...
ciaopubs@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 1, 1999 5:36 am
From: Lance Purple <lpurple@...> ... As with the last time this matter came up (just after the OEB spec was formalized), I think you are overreacting....
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David P. Dillard
jwne@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 10:21 am
REGARDING A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE WITH LINK AND EXCERPT BELOW: Survey data that indicates increased presence of computers and internet access in United States...
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Lance Purple
lpurple@...
Dec 1, 1999 2:34 pm
... But as I pointed out, that wouldn't work! You can't be sure that they didn't videotape the screen, or dictate an oral copy, etc., any more than if it were...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@xxxxxxxxxxx....
Dec 1, 1999 3:28 pm
Since I know we have some of the OEB spec authors on the list, I will make bold to note what looks like a typo in the spec description. On page 13 of the Word...
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Jon Noring
noring@xxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 1, 1999 4:42 pm
Hello, I saw the following post on the mailing list "cni-copyright". I thought this may be of interest to some on eBook-List considering there is now ...
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Julia M. Countryman
julia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 8:08 pm
Hi everyone, I am accepting submissions of books, articles, etc. of all types for a new e-book site that will launch on approximately 1/1/2000. If interested ...
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Jim Drew / Ciao! Publ...
ciaopubs@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 2, 1999 2:46 am
From: Lance Purple <lpurple@...> ... Digital Rights *Management*, Lance, not something else. If something can be viewed, some form of "copy" of it can...
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ParisPoet@xxx.xxx
Dec 2, 1999 3:21 am
I have two weeks here to do my research. Please respond via private email to ParisPoet@... The subject of the article is the Future of Publishing - how...
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ParisPoet@xxx.xxx
Dec 2, 1999 3:20 am
In a message dated 12/1/99 9:51:58 PM, owner-ebook-list-digest@... writes: << Jason Epstein of Random House, discussed by the redoubtable M. J. Rose ...
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Jon Noring
noring@xxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 2, 1999 4:13 am
... It is impossible to ever build any copyright protection technology which is fully crack-proof. All one can do, as I have said many times, is to keep the ...
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Michael Ward
mjward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Dec 2, 1999 4:14 am
... Defn. 2: "Commanding or evoking respect, reverence, or the like" Seems likely. BTW, is there any way to contact Jeff Z at PW? These folks are mighty chary...
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Michael Ward
mjward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Dec 2, 1999 4:51 am
DRM is a house of many mansions. Free e-books at one end, and DRM'ed books [that only open up for a fixed time when you deposit cybermoney into the account of...
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Lance Purple
lpurple@xxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 2, 1999 5:06 am
... Perhaps I spoke imprecisely. Let me try again: - The reason digital media has triumphed over analog media is that errors don't accumulate in each...
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Jim Drew / Ciao! Publ...
ciaopubs@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 2, 1999 7:08 am
From: Lance Purple <lpurple@...> ... Agreed. But at the same time, there is nothing inherently more risky about it being in digital form than in...
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Jon Noring
noring@...
Dec 2, 1999 4:27 pm
I recall a post to eBook-List a few days ago which implied that a hinged, two screen portable e-book device would be preferred by the public. This is an...
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Lisa L. Spangenberg
lisaspangenberg@xxxxx...
Dec 2, 1999 4:57 pm
... In fact, lots of early printed books and many, many codex manuscripts only use one side of a page. Sometimes it was a way of being ostentatious, sometimes...
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Jon Noring
noring@xxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 2, 1999 5:30 pm
... So I interpret from what you say that an e-book reader with two hinged screens is something that you don't find necessary and maybe even a burden? That...
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Lisa L. Spangenberg
lisaspangenberg@xxxxx...
Dec 2, 1999 6:43 pm
... Yes sir; sorry to be imprecise. There's no virtue to a double panel in and of itself. I'd rather have single screens in a variety of formats. I'd argue...
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zendog
zendog@xxxxxxx.xxxxx....
Dec 2, 1999 7:48 pm
Concerning copyright management: *Big brother knows what I read:* I buy books from Amazon.com. I like true adventure kind of books .. loved "Into Thin Air"...
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Jerry Muelver
jerry@xxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 2, 1999 8:02 pm
... that's ... that ... I like my SoftBook, but it needs one more feature -- uploading. I would like to fill in a form (checkboxes, radio buttons, ...
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BHauser121@xxx.xxx
Dec 2, 1999 9:38 pm
Greetings, I am a graduate student and composition instructor in the English Department at The Ohio State University. I am toying with the idea of designing a...
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Stephen Cole
stephen.cole@xxxxxx.x...
Dec 3, 1999 12:41 am
Short note: I would like to thank David Dillard for his occasional posts to this list, highlighting recent research and news. Always pertinent. Signal : Noise...
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Re/pondez SVP
please_respond@xxxxxx...
Dec 3, 1999 2:20 am
The first article of the thread << DRM: OEB, useright v. copyright >> was not meant to incite an ideological discussion, but rather one regarding technological...
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Jon Noring
noring@xxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 3, 1999 3:25 am
... Of course, being libertarian-leaning myself, I am fully aware of the power of the marketplace. Like the rise of the MP3 phenomena. :^) ... Of course. ......
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jwiener@xxxxxxxx.xxxx...
jwiener@xxxxxxxx.xxxx...
Dec 3, 1999 6:16 am
... This is very thought provoking. It's true that you can actively read only one page at a time. On the other hand, sometimes there is value in having more...
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Jim Drew / Ciao! Publ...
ciaopubs@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 3, 1999 6:32 am
From: Jon Noring <noring@...> ... Someone a while back here (or on ebooknet) pointed to a URL with study results about this, indicating that result....
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Eric Balkan
balkan@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 3, 1999 7:05 am
Just joined this list -- quick intro: have an e-novel up on booklocker, did some directory-type e-publishing way back in the 80s (on floppies), currently...
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Jim Drew / Ciao! Publ...
ciaopubs@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 3, 1999 7:20 am
From: Eric Balkan <balkan@...> ... Enough people have problems with viewing on computer screens that I can imagine even more with something like this....
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@xxxxxxxxxxx....
Dec 3, 1999 1:37 pm
... With parchment or vellum, there's also an issue of surface quality. I understand that the inside (so to speak) of prepared critter skin was smoother and...
