Here is one of the reasons why we can’t get away from dead tree books and onto electronic media. A legitimately bought book was deleted by Amazon from the medium at the publishers request and a refund was given. We can imagine what Amazon would do if the UK Government told it to ban any Anti Global Warming books or books by the BNP or books on minimising their thefttax reduction. That is not on. I hope Amazons sales drop to zero. These big Politically Correct organisations don’t deserve to prosper.
The publishers etc. all insist on having absolute control and will insist that it is built into any platform their media is on. The Music and Film guys have exactly the same issue and it just goes on. You see I’m happy to buy a film, some music or a book but I get a bit miffed if it is cancelled or deleted even if I do get a refund from the publishers. Bearing in mind some people have bought DRM protected music and lost it all when the store closed down so getting a refund is a big step forward. They need to accept that the world has moved on and people are looking at different things. I don’t want to buy a CD and not be able to play it in my car or on my computer because some rich music executive thinks I’m going to copy and sell it. Hell, I can get a free copy myself that will play anywhere if I want to. Thank you Mr Hacker.
No, the way forward for these people is to make their wares affordable and unprotected. I’m happy buying things because I know if I don’t the only things on sale will be Barack Osamas biography and Al Gores latest Save the planet book. I buy lots of books. I’m actually waiting for someone to release a 22nd century book reader with the following specifications;
A4 size Bendable and foldable.
Programmable touch sensitive membrane.
Displays PDF/HTML/Text with no DRM.
Converts the text into audio.
Plays DVD type video full screen with no DRM.
Programmable in a similar way to HTML to allow browsing on the web and enable interactive books like web pages.
Basic OS with no executables downloaded from web.
Upgrade capabilities similar to Flash BIOS.
Capability of downloading newspapers/books/magazines.
Capability of paying for these items from the unit.
Then I think we will see that media taking off. Except for the foldable requirement I think we could do all that now. Sony or whoever are you listening. My crayon concept model is up for sale. Only condition is you tell the movie people no DRM will be added. They can make their own player if they want that added. We want the control over what we buy and the capability to keep things we have bought that have been banned by the government.
Thin about it. This would start a new platform for visual media. Save lots of trees from being pulped and kick start the book industry and bring it into the digital age.
They say hard work never killed anyone, but why risk it?
We pay but have no control over media
Here is one of the reasons why we can’t get away from dead tree books and onto electronic media. A legitimately bought book was deleted by Amazon from the medium at the publishers request and a refund was given. We can imagine what Amazon would do if the UK Government told it to ban any Anti Global Warming books or books by the BNP or books on minimising their thefttax reduction. That is not on. I hope Amazons sales drop to zero. These big Politically Correct organisations don’t deserve to prosper.
The publishers etc. all insist on having absolute control and will insist that it is built into any platform their media is on. The Music and Film guys have exactly the same issue and it just goes on. You see I’m happy to buy a film, some music or a book but I get a bit miffed if it is cancelled or deleted even if I do get a refund from the publishers. Bearing in mind some people have bought DRM protected music and lost it all when the store closed down so getting a refund is a big step forward. They need to accept that the world has moved on and people are looking at different things. I don’t want to buy a CD and not be able to play it in my car or on my computer because some rich music executive thinks I’m going to copy and sell it. Hell, I can get a free copy myself that will play anywhere if I want to. Thank you Mr Hacker.
No, the way forward for these people is to make their wares affordable and unprotected. I’m happy buying things because I know if I don’t the only things on sale will be Barack Osamas biography and Al Gores latest Save the planet book. I buy lots of books. I’m actually waiting for someone to release a 22nd century book reader with the following specifications;
A4 size Bendable and foldable.
Programmable touch sensitive membrane.
Displays PDF/HTML/Text with no DRM.
Converts the text into audio.
Plays DVD type video full screen with no DRM.
Programmable in a similar way to HTML to allow browsing on the web and enable interactive books like web pages.
Basic OS with no executables downloaded from web.
Upgrade capabilities similar to Flash BIOS.
Capability of downloading newspapers/books/magazines.
Capability of paying for these items from the unit.
Then I think we will see that media taking off. Except for the foldable requirement I think we could do all that now. Sony or whoever are you listening. My crayon concept model is up for sale. Only condition is you tell the movie people no DRM will be added. They can make their own player if they want that added. We want the control over what we buy and the capability to keep things we have bought that have been banned by the government.
Thin about it. This would start a new platform for visual media. Save lots of trees from being pulped and kick start the book industry and bring it into the digital age.