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The Middle Ages of eBooks

By analyzing the constraints that some vendors apply their electronic readers, we can say we're still in a period of darkness digital.

Nook and Kindle

Yesterday in the Wahington Post, Rob Pegoraro published a review of the new reader Barnes and Nobles, the Nook. In this column, readers named three of the most popular North American market (the most important from afar worldwide): the Sony Reader, Amazon Kindle, and obviously, the aforementioned Nook.

Nook Kindle Compare more specifically, finding common points (e-ink screen, 3G wireless connectivity with Wi-Fi receiver built in case of failure of telephone service) and differences:

• Design: The Nook includes two screens, the reading pane and a second touch screen navigation dedicated to
• Autonomy: the Kindle would read more pages between two battery recharges
• Compatibility: The Nook to read personal documents uploaded to the device through a USB port, PDF, ePub, PDB or MP3 while the Kindle only reads files in their proprietary format AZW
• DRM (or Digital Rights Management): The Nook includes a feature called "LendMe" that allows you to provide a book after another customer of Barnes and Nobles for 14 days. Amazon Kindle prevents you from transferring a text to another device.

In conclusion the author states that although the latter option is interesting, the design flaws of Nook not make it a very serious competitor for the Kindle, which itself makes a big mistake in managing proprietary format and tie work to a device.


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I was much struck that the author does not question more deeply the issue of protection of works. It seems legitimate for the authors and that in general, the actors of the book industry worry that they do not pirate his work and finally, do not profit from using their work. But the consumer can not get hurt in this way. What justification can not read my own documents in my device? How can you justify not providing books that I bought from a friend? Perhaps I can not do with a real book? Why an e-book has to be more restrictive?
And when they decide to "open" their restrictions they do it too ridiculous: I can lend a book a time to a friend for 14 days ...

addition to all existing precedents in the music industry would not be a position somewhat anachronistic?

In this regard David Pogue, the renowned New York Times columnist, recounts an experience made with his publisher O'Reilly. Decided to release one of his books in PDF format unprotected: he realized that although the book could be found in free downloading at all corners of the Internet, sales of the paper version did not decline and even rose. Sure, her book won advertising. So? What are you waiting for the big players in the online edition to follow suit and find new ways of disseminating books that are not detrimental to the reader?

The music industry did, including Apple iTunes managed to consolidate their platform paid download music, when everyone was able to download music free . Hopefully the book industry knowledge to take this experience.