Pages Tagged “DRM”
Reviews
- Bookshop.org ★★★★☆ A good place to shop online for books and still support indie bookstores. They sell eBooks too, in standard ePub format.
- eBooks.com ★★★★☆ An eBook seller with some actual business ethics. No hardware (which simplifies things), but they have an app for Android and iOS, and any DRM-free titles can be downloaded and read on just about anything.
- Kobo (eBook store and readers) ★★★★☆ A solid alternative to Kindle, from the eBook selection through apps and hardware. The app works well on my eink tablet without too much tweaking, though it still wants to sell me more books before I can open the one I want to read.
- Where to Get eBooks A round-up of places I’ve used to find, buy, borrow and download eBooks.
Blog Posts
- Ursula K. Le Guin eBook Bundle (Ended)
Humble Bundle is offering 30 books* by Ursula K. Le Guin supporting the Literary Arts charity, including all of Earthsea, several Hainish novels, Catwings, short stories, Gifts/Voices/Powers, nonfiction writing… I’ve read the Earthsea series (good-to-great) and most of the Hainish novels (some great, some good, some OK), plus Lathe of Heaven (great), and I’ve got […]
- Hazards of DRM on Music (or video, or any other media)
Mark Pilgrim, in The Day the Music Died, points out what happens when DRM meets market failure. On August 31, Microsoft will turn off the servers that validate their “PlaysForSure” DRM system (this predates the system they use for the Zune). This means that anyone who has bought music that uses PlaysForSure will not be […]
- It worked for DIVX, right? (Oh, wait…)
You know, when Napster announced its subscription music plan, I never gave it a second look. Not because I assumed it wouldn’t work with my Linux box or Katie’s Mac, but for one simple reason: No matter how many songs you “buy” on the plan, once your subscription lapses, they’re all gone. Want to stop […]
- Cry me a river
So Apple is ticked off at Real’s reverse-engineering to let people buy music from Real and play it on an iPod. Apple has threatened DMCA sanctions and all but promised to deliberately break it in the next software update. Excuse me? In general I like Apple, but their insistence on locking the iPod to iTunes […]