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Ebook Pricing vs Print Pricing
It really isn’t that much cheaper to produce an ebook. The binding/printing costs are depending on the book and the binding and the numbers printed somewhere around 1 to 3 bucks a book,…
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Public Library Ebooks and Overdrive
Michael Cohen, over at Tidbits, has written a piece about downloading a DRM protected ebook via his local public library. His library like mine uses technology and books provided by Overdrive, Inc. The books in question…
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Why Technology Fails to Stop Book Theft
Various forms of technology intended to control who could read books have failed. All of them have failed, and largely, for the same reasons. We have first the book curse, sometime called a…
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MacWorld on DVD Ripping: Is It Legal?
One of the smartest, most thoughtful discussions I’ve seen about ripping backups of DVDs you own, from MacWorld Staff: Is DVD ripping illegal? The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t…
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Two Graphic Explanations of why DRM doesn’t work
DRM really doesn’t work; it doesn’t even slow down pirates, but it frustrates honest users, and programmers. Here are two clear explanations of why it doesn’t work to protect artists, creators and publishers.…
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O’Reilly DRMless High Quality Technical Ebooks
O’Reilly is one of my very favorite technical book publishers, right up there with Peach Pit and Take Control Ebooks. O’Reilly earned a reputation almost immediately for reliable, useful high quality books about…
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Copy Protected CDs not Supported by Apple
Remember the Celine Dion CD that not only wouldn’t play on a Mac, but wouldn’t eject and could even damage your Mac? Well there are others, and Apple has published a Knowledge Base…
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CD-Audio Boycott
The latest copy protection idiocy is a Celine Dion CD that not only won’t work in your CD-ROM drive, it can damage it. My spouse and I, both proud owners of iPods haven’t…