http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/ Engadget Comments for Barnes and Noble e-book reader hits the FCC http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 18th 2009 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 18th 2009 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 18th 2009 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 18th 2009 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 18th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 18th 2009 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 18th 2009 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/
Barnes & Noble sells eReader format NOT ePub. Also ePub may not be a proprietary format, but ePub using Adobe Adept DRM is. eReader/Fictionwise is working on putting out ePub with eReader style DRM which basically makes it a different format unless a reading device has support for both brands of DRM.]]>Sep 18th 2009 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 18th 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/
So, they've already got themselves into the game and can probably leverage that back-catalogue to sell hardware if they're sensible about making it easy to read ebooks in lots of formats on this device.
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Do you know how much a data subscription like that would be if you had to pay for it separately? A hell of a lot more than $299.

Anything you'd get right now that falls under $250 is going to be junk, because e-ink isn't cheap.]]>Sep 19th 2009 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 18th 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/
Should we continue to vilify them for past mistakes that have been corrected? Do you think that Barnes and Noble could not have made that mistake when caught between copyright law and users?
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And Amazon somehow has guaranteed they will never do anything like it again? Right, they're word is worth nothing to me. Once is all it takes. Amazon eBook buyers are licensing the content. They will never own it. What happens when congress passes a new copyright law? What happens when Amazon is purchased by a super-corp? What happens when the contract with the connectivity provider blows up? Too much is in flux. I'll wait until there is an eBook reader that lets me own my books.]]>Sep 18th 2009 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/
You DO own your books. Whenever you make a Kindle edition purchase, you have the ability and right to download the book TO YOUR COMPUTER and save it on whatever media you want. CD, DVD, External device... It's YOURS. If Amazon removes a book from your online archive, you need only sync to your local backup and keep reading.

The amount of outright lying and ignorance regarding this aspect of Amazon's Kindle edition sales is astounding. There's nothing stopping you from keeping the books on your computer hard drive, and the Kindle itself doesn't "lock out" books you purchased, even if they did recall them from the online archive.

Nobody reached into people's Kindles and deleted anything. They removed the book from the online archive, and it simply wasn't there to sync when people synced their Kindle. Amazon didn't magically destroy every downloaded copy of those books.

All my Kindle books are sitting on my laptop hard drive, untouched and unmolested by Amazon.

People who don't know what the hell they're talking about should stop spreading FUD. ]]>Sep 19th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 18th 2009 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 18th 2009 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 19th 2009 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Sep 19th 2009 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/
However, can I just take a moment to encourage everyone to NOT buy from Barnes and Noble? This company does not recycle (much), and actually encourages waste, plus they do not treat their employees well. I don't have time to go into detail, but it's the truth.

Support your local bookshops instead--or even Borders or Amazon, for pete's sake. B&N is soulless.]]>Sep 20th 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/
UNITED STATES'

The current iteration, "United State's," indicates only one united state. Which state? Wisconsin? Maine? Alaska? C'mon, inquiring minds want to know!]]>Sep 21st 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/barnes-and-noble-e-book-reader-hits-the-fcc/Oct 2nd 2009 6:59PM