Interesting Links for 9-10-2011

[andrewducker]

• The 99c novel. I already know people buying these. I wonder where the market is heading
  (tags: books business amazon ebooks)
• Blackboards in Porn - just how accurate are they?
  (tags: porn sfw blackboard maths science)
• You can't have closure. I want to know if it makes you happier if you stop trying to get it.
  (tags: closure emotions life psychology)
• Fascinating piece on how we think can read each other's emotions, even when we can't
  (tags: emotions perception AmandaKnox)
• The Judge Dredd movie is having problems...
  (tags: JudgeDredd comics movies)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Plus, in this case, Kindle's format is a direct clone of .mobi, with Amazon's proprietary encryption on it so that you can't use non-Amazon e-readers with it.

So they didn't add anything, they just locked their books down to just their reader, and their reader down so it doesn't support the standard everyone else uses.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Amazon freely convert epub stuff so I can buy epub books (assuming DRM free) and read them from my kindle should I so choose. It's much less convenient as I have to buy then from many different companies and have to make my own back up of said books.

Fortunately, I can rip the DRM off things I buy trivially so if I move away from kindle I can take my books with me if I don't mind a little bit of law breaking (in the same way that ripping my CDs to mp3 and listening to them on my mp3 player is illegal).