[Klug-general] eBooks purchase/formats/readers

[james snyder]

Hi, I am looking into ebooks at the moment..... does anyone know of any good
URLs for downloading a freeware Dev Kit for eBooks? what are thoughts about
Linux textbooks? can anyone recommend good eReaders that can be shipped to
the UK, that you think are reasonably in priced and technically can deliver
more than just reading?

Jim/Linux

On 18 January 2010 15:48, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:

> In a similar thread to Mike Rentell's question on eBooks:
>
> 1) What are the eBook formats available, what are the pros/cons of each.
>  I suspect that pdf would be preferred format as there are many and
> varied readers, but that as a result nothing worth getting is available
> in it.
>
> 2) Which of the formats have readers which work under Linux
>
> 3) Which are the good sources of eBooks for those formats which are
> readable on Linux?
>
> 4) What's the deal on ownership/copyright here?  As a complete novice to
> eBooks I would have thought that the reason a publisher/vendor wanting a
> proprietary format would be so that they can sell you a book which only
> you have the key to read - so you can't copy it to all your friends at
> zero gain to the vendor/author.  Given that authors make a living by
> selling their work that doesn't seem unreasonable to me.  I'd just like
> the price to reflect the fact that I can't sell it on and that they are
> not paying for the medium it is held on or the shelf space for
> displaying it to me on the high street/airport etc.
>
> All this is of course motivated by the fact that I've just taken
> delivery of a Touchbook and that I'm about to spend some time away and
> I'd like to get some books to read on my new toy.
>
> Mike
>
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