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Re:It's about time by cpu6502 · 2012-04-26 03:11 · Score: 5, Insightful · on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books

For those saying you would now buy ebooks from Tor..... do you buy the Sci-Fi magazines? That is where most young authors get their start. If they die out (they lose about 1000 subscribers/year), so too does the paid outlet for future talent. And most of the mags are DRM free too:

http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/dellmagazineauthorseBooks.htm?cache

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ARM by Larry Niven by Leemeng · 2012-03-07 08:29 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels?

Sci-Fi/Mystery/Crime
Fist came out in 1975
Hugo Award Nominee

http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook535.htm

Re:Formats and standards by RDW · 2012-02-26 12:56 · Score: 1 · on 2 Science Publishers Delve Into Science Fiction

Please note that ARC is only available for iPad or Kindle...Thank you to TRSF, with ePub and Kindle formats.

Compatibility problems generally go away if you have Calibre and the appropriate DRM-stripping plugins...

But if you'd rather deal with an SF magazine that doesn't impose DRM in the first place, check out Interzone:

http://ttapress.com/interzone/

You can get it in the usual formats from Smashwords or Fictionwise:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/132535
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b129717/Interzone-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy-Magazine-235/TTA-Press-Authors/?si=0

and there's a free sample issue:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/60013
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/74316

Some good sites for getting drm free ebooks by slyrat · 2011-11-30 02:00 · Score: 2 · on How Publishers Are Cutting Their Own Throats With eBook DRM

So since I have had one of the early ebook devices (Sony prs) I have always had to look for ebook stores outside of the big 3 that are linked to the devices. Here are some of the ones where I shop:
no starch press
fictionwise
wowio - graphic novel ebooks
oreilly technical books
smashwords
Baen web scription
the ENTIRE Vorkosigan Saga

Re:I sort of agree by Daniel_Staal · 2011-06-08 02:06 · Score: 2 · on Stallman: eBooks Are Attacking Our Freedoms

In addition to Baen, there are a fair number of stores online that sell ebooks without any DRM. (For at least some of their catalog.) My favorite is Fictionwise. (Look for 'Multiformat Ebooks'.)

I think Stallman would have been better to highlight and point out those stores, and encourage people to use them.

There are cheaper, non-DRM bookstores by MCRocker · 2011-05-20 11:09 · Score: 1 · on Ebooks Now Outselling Print Books At Amazon

I generally buy my eBooks from WebScription, which is mostly Baen SciFi, or FictionWise, which is everything else. Both are much cheaper than Amazon and both offer non-DRM'd books, often in multiple formats. Sure, their site design is not as snazy as Amazon or Kobo or even Diesel, but I can find what I want and get it at a reasonable cost with no DRM most of the time.

I started with Kobo, but, at one point, I bought a book listed as "mobile", which I assumed was suitable for an eBook reader in a venue without WiFi, but discovered that, by "mobile", they meant online. Even though I hadn't read a page, they wouldn't refund my money, so I looked elsewhere, discovered WebScription and FictionWise and haven't looked back. Both are, not only cheaper than Amazon, but also generally cheaper than Kobo as an added benefit.

Re:sounds like an opening for my new startup by braindrainbahrain · 2010-10-25 04:15 · Score: 1 · on Amazon To Allow Book Lending On the Kindle

Sorry, both you and AC below both lose out on your patent idea. Isaac Asimov claims prior art on your idea, which, in an amazing act of prescience, he documented in his short story The Holmes-Gimsbook Device, a short story about the invention of a device that allows reading and girl-watching at the same time.

(available in many places, not just the link provided)

Asimov did this long ago by Mathinker · 2010-10-24 18:16 · Score: 2, Insightful · on Amazon To Allow Book Lending On the Kindle

Asimov did this long ago, while panning "The Double Helix" at the same time. And now for some meta-humor, I post a link to a DRMed eBook edition of that short story.

http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook3062.htm.

(Hint: don't buy it in that format. Find a used copy of "Opus 100" instead. After that you might feel morally justified in downloading it. Or not --- a chacun son gout.)

Re:eBook pricing by DadLeopard · 2010-09-24 07:43 · Score: 1 · on E-Books Are Only 6% of Printed Book Sales

That is why I DONT have a kindle! I do my shopping at various other places on the net that have decent prices or even eBooks for free! for decent prices try http://www.webscription.org/ and http://www.fictionwise.com/ there are many more out there if you just search for them! Lots of place for the free ones also besides http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page !

Re:DRM by gidds · 2010-09-24 01:27 · Score: 1 · on E-Books Are Only 6% of Printed Book Sales

Yep, they're good.

Another site I get a lot from is Fictionwise. Some of their stuff is DRMed, but some is available in a wide range of formats including open ones such as HTML. Well worth a look.

(I too am only a happy customer. I'd be even happier if they had more recent and more popular stuff in their multi-format section, but still...)

Prospector's Special by mapkinase · 2010-08-23 00:13 · Score: 3, Interesting · on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity

Situation when rescue could be easily performed (there is technology), but the issue is about the money is a significant plot component in a beloved childhood Robert Sheckley story:

http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b93297/Prospectors-Special/Robert-Sheckley/?si=0

Fictionwise? by slyrat · 2010-08-04 02:32 · Score: 1 · on Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play

Maybe they wanted to spend more time with their ebook stores like Fictionwise. Hopefully their ebook stores, like this one, will stick around since they are some of the more open ones around right now.

Re:e-book != Kindle by slyrat · 2010-07-30 01:41 · Score: 1 · on Stieg Larsson Is First Author To Sell 1M E-Books

But is there anyplace that amalgamate book numbers together? I don't know of any. I think we are stuck with partial number sets.

Well I do know that fictionwise says at the top that they are a barnes and noble company. So they should be able to do similar comparisons between the physical b&n stores and their website sales. I think amazon just has been trying to do more trumpeting of the numbers than anyone as of yet.

Re:EBOOK PRICES by slyrat · 2010-06-22 01:41 · Score: 1 · on Prices Slashed For Nook, Kindle E-Readers

Well then you may want to check out fictionwise
It is a fiction ebook store that has electronic versions of books that will work in almost any of the ebooks out there. Though admittedly the easiest for this might be the sony ones since they strangely have the most open stance on book formats of the big 3 ebooks. They have a whole section on what versions work for the various ebook devices.

scientology ftw by archangel9 · 2010-02-17 06:14 · Score: 1 · on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel?

Didn't L. Ron Hubbard already work this out with the Will-Be Was Engines from Mission Earth? Heller figured out a way to bleed off all the excess energy.

Re:This just in... by braindrainbahrain · 2010-02-05 02:28 · Score: 1 · on Murdoch Says E-Book Prices Will Kill Paper Books

Isaac Asimov also wrote a short story that "predicted" paper books. See "The Holmes-Ginsbook Device" by Isaac Asimov.

Re:Dear FSF by NiteShaed · 2010-01-28 09:59 · Score: 1 · on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward"

To my surprise, one of the most important functions I wanted in a book reader was not there -- I could not import my own documents. So it's still useful, but it's not exactly what I want.

Take a look over at eReader or fictionwise.com. You can create your own docs for the eReader software, and import them through eReader itself, either through one of those site's content servers, or your own webserver. It's not the smoothest system on Earth, but it's not particularly difficult to set up. If you're talking about books, it should work pretty well....

Re:What happens when the reader breaks ? by gidds · 2009-12-31 05:21 · Score: 1 · on DRM and the Destruction of the Book

What They Said.

I've tons of books and stories in plain text. (Well, I keep 'em in Palm DOC format, to save space on my PDA, but that's freely and losslessly convertible to and from plain text, so it's effectively the same.)

Many of them are from, erm, various sources; but a good pile were bought from Fictionwise, which sells some of its stuff in a range of open formats (Palm DOC, PDF, ePub, and many more). Unfortunately the latest and best-selling titles tend to be DRMed, but that still leaves a lot of good stuff.

Of course, there are still longer-term archival issues (like photos and music and everything else digital), but it does mean that any device capable of reading the file in the next century or so should be able to display it -- a great improvement from locked-down formats which may lock you out at any time.

they may have left, but they came back.... by NiteShaed · 2009-10-20 08:33 · Score: 1 · on The Kindle Killer Arrives

(But remember the cautionary note B&N struck six years back when they got out of the e-book business.)

That may be, but they've been back in for a little while now.

As an aside, I've been using eReader for years, first on Windows Mobile, and now on my iPod touch. It's a nice reader, they have a decent selection of books, and it's easy to make your own from converted text or html files.

Re:More on the "iPod for books" by sh00z · 2009-10-05 01:04 · Score: 1 · on Will Books Be Napsterized?

And in the darkness bind them?

I don't know if you were going for humor or irony, so rather than use my mod points, I'll provide a link for those who don't know-- The Lord of the Rings was just released in an authorized electronic edition in April of this year.

Breaking News: The are more countrie the US and GB by krischik · 2009-08-15 20:42 · Score: 1 · on Sony To Convert Online Bookstore To Open Format

And to answer your question:

http://www.beam-ebooks.de/lesesoftware/
http://www.libri.de/shop/action/maga...ub_format.html
http://www.bol.de/shop/neuheiten-epubs/show/
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3249
http://www.fictionwise.com/help/eBook-formats-FAQ.htm
http://www.waterstones.com/waterston...e.do?ctx=10030
http://ebooks.whsmith.co.uk/

Sony is the "open" reader by Digital_Quartz · 2009-08-06 11:01 · Score: 5, Informative · on Sony Takes Aim At Amazon's Kindle

Or at least, it is compared to the Kindle. Sony will read PDF files and EPUB files. (EPUB is an open standard; an EPUB file is really a zip file, containing a few XML documents that describe where everything is, and then either XHTML or DAISY/DTBook content).

It's VERY easy to copy content to the Sony readers (shows up like a USB hard drive, or copy content to an SD card and insert). There's no remote-kill like the Kindle.

If you're worried about finding DRM free content, check out Baen's Webscriptions or Fictionwise (look for the "multiformat" books; all DRM free).

Finally, if you REALLY don't want to go with Sony, there are lots of other good readers out there, some of which run Linux, and give you source for the software.

Re:Old dilema by boombaard · 2009-06-10 21:13 · Score: 1 · on DOJ Turns Up the Heat On Google's Book Deal

but virtually no new books are release in digital format. I for one read a lot of SF, and if I could get, say, the latest Iain M. Banks on file, I would buy it in an instant. However, I can't, so I have to order the damn hardcover from the UK, wait a million years for it to be delivered, instead of getting my fix in 2 minutes, for a premium that I'd be willing to pay, to read on an ebook reader that I'd be willing to pay dearly too - if I had a great choice of books to read on it.

Try Fictionwise (Matter is the book you're looking for, I take it?), or BooksOnBoard. Admittedly the amount of books offered isn't very large yet, but there are some efforts being made, and esp. scifi/fant is already fairly well available.

Some books on the subject by hughperkins · 2009-05-24 02:53 · Score: 5, Informative · on Internet Giving Rise To "Citizen Spies"

Some books on the subject:

Announcement today by Fictionwise by sehlat · 2009-04-19 17:08 · Score: 2, Informative · on eReader.com Limits E-book Sales To US Citizens