Hello Jim this is the reply I got when I wrote to these people about my
difficulty in reading E-Book.
Dear Mike,
Thank you for contacting iUniverse. Unfortunately all of our e-books are created with the DRM restrictions attached. We are unable to separate them and send you a different file. I am not aware of any restrictions regarding screen readers but it could be possible that the DRM is restricting this. If you would like, since you are unable to use the e-book, I would be happy to issue you a refund for your order. Please let me know what you would like to do.
Regards,
Blair Wyant iUniverse Author Services
Hi Ronan,
Open xml-based standards are the future. DRM-encumbered opaque binary formats will soon be history. We should do everything we can to promote open text-based formats and hasten EBooks into the history books. Writers like Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross are good counter-examples to the lies that publishers tell us.
--Jim
----- Original Message ----- From: Ronan McGuirk <ronan.mcguirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:23 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: trouble with E-book
haveHi all,
Jim I agree with you about ebooks.
However there is a growing amount of free online material.
For example, The Wikipedia encyclopedia is now excellent and appears to me
to be fully accessible and simple to search with Google. They have also
started free online textbooks at www.wikibooks.orb.
If anyone has had any success with Adobe or Microsoft ebooks could they respond to this list? I personally have not had success with them anddissemination,given up on MS and Adobe ebooks.
By contrast the free online content seems to be getting better and better.
What do other VICS members think?
Ronan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Dunleavy" <jim.dunleavy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:08 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: trouble with E-book
> Hi,
>
> EBooks are nothing but trouble. Don't buy or download them.
> If they're not made up of scanned images that can't be read with a
> screen reader, they're encumbered with digital restrictions management
> to stop you from saving the text.
> They're even a problem for sighted people, when, for example,
> they enforce policies such as only allowing you to print one copy; so
> if your printer chokes on it, you have to purchase your EBook again.
> </Rant Over>
>
> --Jim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Meaney <mikemean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: vics ireland <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:16 AM
> Subject: [vicsireland] trouble with E-book
>
>
> > Hello Vickers,
> > I downloaded a book a few days ago and am trying since to get Adobe > > to
> read
> > it. I have the version 7.08 and I can't get a murmur out of it.
> > The writing comes up on the screen I'm told by my Wife but it doesn't
> allow
> > you to copy. I've tried using Kurtzweil and I get the message it > > can't
> > access the file. Can anybody help.
> > Frustrated!!
> > Mike Meaney
> > All the best,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > 061 300044
> >
> >
>
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