Comments on: Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior

By: Rise in e-book piracy: One more reason to DITCH Digital Rights Management | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:37:14 +0000

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By: Mario

Mario — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:29:24 +0000

I’ve bought a Kindle DX at Revolution Store few weeks ago and I’m really impressed with it. It’s wonderful. I love it!

By: Web Development India

Web Development India — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:05:25 +0000

This one is good.The texbooks will be “free”, but the publishers will work out an agreement with each college such that a royalty will be paid back to the publisher based on student counts in the classroom.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:44:30 +0000

Sorry, med school exams (they’re called “boards”) aren’t open book, and never will be.

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By: Banjowoman

Banjowoman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:22:05 +0000

I got through my last two years of school with a 3.9 GPA and I just quit buying textbooks. I learned that the secret was to take down every work the teacher says and memorize it. Of course, I did have to purchase some workbooks, lab books, but I saved a lot of money and realized that reading my assignments was actually hurting my grades, as I would spend hours reading and never get to studying what the professor actually said in class.
Just my 2 cents worth for all you students out there

By: Amazon Kindle DX and ebook evolution

Amazon Kindle DX and ebook evolution — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:23:45 +0000

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By: campaign sniper

campaign sniper — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:10:28 +0000

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By: 7 Reasons Why TechCrunch’s New Tablet Can Crush The Kindle — Mixergy.com

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:51:23 +0000

[...] TechCrunch itself said that piracy might be the Kindle’s savor. The CrunchPad makes reading pirated books even easier than the Kindle because you don’t have to figure out how to get all the illegal books on your device. You just use the built-in Web browser to read them. [...]

By: Sunday Reading: Blackout Edition « MiddBlog

Sunday Reading: Blackout Edition « MiddBlog — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:05:10 +0000

[...] that got super-sized to DX this week, is going to save the newspaper industry, is going to be piracy’s friend, can’t pronounce Barack Obama, and will be the death of end-of-year college parties. Why [...]

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:40:56 +0000

I wonder, does anyone thinks that textbooks are overpriced? Isn’t that the first step to promote piracy? Unfortunately, it seems to me that this economic model, based on pure (and lots of) profit is THE problem. Maybe we should start to discuss it before talking about how piracy is a such big menace or implementing restrictive rules and censorship (like some UE countries are doing – France and Sweden).

By: Kindle and Digital Piracy « Kindle 2 Review – Kindle DX Review, Books

Kindle and Digital Piracy « Kindle 2 Review – Kindle DX Review, Books — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:32:31 +0000

[...] TechCrunch thinks Kindle DX will be a success because PDF support encourages rampant book piracy. [...]

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Fri, 22 May 2009 05:20:46 +0000

[...] Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior (@techcrunch); interesting points. [...]

By: Ryan Mills

Thu, 21 May 2009 06:58:26 +0000

The Kindle DX is already the 4th most popular electronic on Amazon.com and it isn’t even available yet! http://bit.ly/JEHNj

By: Amazon Kindle DX and ebook evolution | News, Mobile news

Amazon Kindle DX and ebook evolution | News, Mobile news — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:58:45 +0000

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By: The Kindle Chronicles - TKC 43 Stephen Peters

The Kindle Chronicles - TKC 43 Stephen Peters — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:01:49 +0000

[...] (1:57) – Stephen Windwalker’s analysis of Kindle DX and Kindle 2 sales. Will pirates save the DX? Also, Amazon makes nifty improvements to the Kindle iPhone [...]

By: Studie: Buch-”Piraterie” harmloser als gedacht » netzwertig.com

Studie: Buch-”Piraterie” harmloser als gedacht » netzwertig.com — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:01:38 +0000

[...] E-Book-Reader wie Amazons Kindle bescheren uns derzeit eine Renaissance dieser Debatte. So argumentierte Jason Kinkaid kürzlich auf Techcrunch, dass der 500 Dollar teure Kindle allein deswegen erfolgreich sein wird, weil man damit illegal [...]

By: John @ Hard Work Blogging

John @ Hard Work Blogging — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:00:44 +0000

I have read many books on LCD screens and continue to be the only member of my household not in need of reading glasses. There is a difference but i have not had eyesight diminish from reading on an LCD screen. Your statement is not universally true so i stand by my original assessment.

It depends on many things.
* Using an LCD in a dark room can diminish eyesight.
* Long periods of time viewing the same item at a consistent viewing distance, blinking rarely and not refocusing your gaze can diminish eyesight. (this might be the LCD screen or the e-ink display).
* Proper lighting when using a computer screen can mitigate damaging effects the screen may have on eyesight.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:04:51 +0000

There is a huge difference between reading on e-ink screens vs LCD screens. I’d go blind trying to read a manual or textbook for hours on a LCD screen.

By: Ricardo Banffy

Ricardo Banffy — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:46:28 +0000

“might seriously cripple the functions”

Just like it crippled my netbook that came with Windows…

Get real. Actually, it would unlock the device’s potential.

By: Ricardo Banffy

Ricardo Banffy — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:43:19 +0000

Microsoft doesn’t want to stop piracy. It helps them keeping a dominant market share. It also allows them to practice dumping without being accused of that.

Do you really believe the 111-1111111 serial number in so many products was an accident?

By: Ricardo Banffy

Ricardo Banffy — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:39:18 +0000

I already live in a place where the wireless won’t work (hint: everywhere not in the US).

Problem solved.

By: Ricardo Bánffy

Ricardo Bánffy — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:36:54 +0000

It has HT and some paralellism. This gives it roughly a 50% boost when compared to a single-core x86.

It’s not blindingly fast, but it’s good enough for me (Emacs-Django-Linux).

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:14:33 +0000

To compare it to MP3 piracy, a lot of people really don’t know you can turn a textbook into a PDF and share it as a file. Just the same, back in the day, a lot people didn’t really realise that the computers that they typed their essays on could actually convert music into MP3s. Getting people to realise that the option is there is the first step – today pretty much everyone knows this.

The MP3 format doesn’t need to be played on an iPod, it’ll work just fine on the computer you already have. If the piracy is based on PDFs you don’t actually NEED the Kindle, you just need a device that can read PDFs. The Kindle gives you a lovely, paper like screen but it’s not required to take advantage of free textbooks.

You’d probably prefer reading the PDF files on the Kindle, just like you might prefer listening to MP3s without being tied to your computer, so you’d eventually choose to upgrade to an e-ink device.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:54:59 +0000

Is this a troll? It -must- be a troll. If he’s not laughing at us for answering him I’ll lose all faith in people.

Here is the summary:

tom doesn’t think people take music FROM their iPod TO their computer, so
tom doesn’t see why Amazon will let people upload material FROM their computer TO the Kindle.

Do you see how you’ve turned that around? The Kindle can’t (yet, anyway) scan textbooks into PDF, that’s what computers connected to scanners do. You then put the PDF onto the Kindle and read it on the Kindle. There’s no need to copy it from the Kindle after that, surely?