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Google DRMed books disappear off iPad because owner crossed national borders.
When publishers address piracy like rational human beings, we all win.
Today, EFF announced that it was making a formal objection to including consideration of digital rights management (DRM) in the First Public Working Draft from the HTML working group of the World
Could turn into an interesting debate...
There's a new front in the battle against digital rights management (DRM) technologies. These technologies, which supposedly exist to enforce copyright, have never done anything to get creative
Explains what hoops users need to jump through for various (mostly academic) ebook providers.
Marie Turek, product manager, e-books and Mendeley at SwetsThere can be quite a bit of variety between publishers, and restrictions in functionality vary enormously. Some suppliers have no DRM but some really restrict it. For some aggregators, DRM is almost on a title-by-title basis. While they’d like to give the illusion of one DRM for all, they are separate contracts and this might not be totally obvious to the end user.
I’ve seen a number of articles recently about schemes to sell “used” e-books, mostly spurred by Amazon’s recent patent on such a process. I’ve seen lots of enthusiasm …
Dennis S. was the first of a bunch of folks to send in the news of a class action lawsuit recently filed by a bunch of independent...
Experts say it may have to do with the size of the two markets, for one thing.
B&N forbids redownload of an already-purchased ebook because a credit card on file expired.
Kindle user has account abruptly closed and ebooks deleted, can't get explanation.
Hachette tries to tell author not to allow Tor to provide un-DRMed ebooks.
Links to a good intro to DRM "tip sheet."
Apple makes some pretty cool products. If you’ve spent any time stuck in the Microsoft Office world, Apple’s office products—Keynote, Pages, and Numbers—are a revelation. The best part is you can open MS Office files with Apple’s products, and save them into Apple’s format, or many others.