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Nintendo To Start Publishing Ebooks On the DS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-eyes-are-burning dept.

Miracle Jones writes "Nintendo is going to start publishing ebooks for the DS in conjunction with HarperCollins. The first cartridge will go on sale December 26th in the UK, will cost around 30 dollars, and will feature 100 classic books — stuff like Charles Dickens and Jane Austen."

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  1. DRM? by John+Hasler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dickens and Austen, eh? So what sort of DRM is Nintendo going to use to "protect" this "IP"?

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    1. Re:DRM? by Justin+Hopewell · · Score: 4, Funny

      A 48 character "Friend Code".

    2. Re:DRM? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      No need. They'll just get Fagin to "send the boys round" if they catch you doing anything untoward.

    3. Re:DRM? by NuclearError · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wouldn't the fact that the material is by Dickens and Austen be enough to stop copying? I, for one, wouldn't pirate it if you paid me.

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    4. Re:DRM? by kanweg · · Score: 4, Funny

      But it gave him new inspiration to think up stories about Scrooge. He didn't pay for the inspiration that the pirates gave him, so they called it even.

      Bert

    5. Re:DRM? by geoffrobinson · · Score: 3, Funny

      Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right

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    6. Re:DRM? by Teilo · · Score: 2, Funny

      To whomever modded this "Offtopic": What the Dickens is the matter with you?

      Yet another illiterate modder who can't even be bothered to use google.

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    7. Re:DRM? by Omestes · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dickens maybe, Austen though? Turn on your TV, change channel to Lifetime, watch it for whatever the equivalent of 50000000 pages is, replacing cars with chariots, and everything else with tea, poof instant Jane Austen.

      I personally can't stand either of them. Dickens basically wrote the same book 40 times, while Austen is about as readable as Danielle Steele, but gets credit for being a woman writing books when women didn't right books, which is quite an accomplishment even if said books are about banal people being banal (with tea).

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    8. Re:DRM? by Omestes · · Score: 2, Funny

      You missed Jane Austen's BEN HUR?

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  2. Re:finally! by megamerican · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, I can see it now:

    Call me Ishmael

    *Turn Page*

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  3. Selection by gehrehmee · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know I was just clamoring to get my my hands on the Jane Austin books when I was a kid. If only there was a way to get it digitally, and in a form where I could read it while making people think I was playing video games! Oh, that would have been too much to ask.

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  4. The 26th is days too late by georgeha · · Score: 1, Funny

    to buy a most hated Christmas Present. Can you imagine a kid getting this, "Yay, a new DS game" "Boo, it's just books."

  5. all they need is some pretty artwork by tuffy · · Score: 5, Funny

    and it'll be like a DS RPG, but with better stories and fewer boss battles.

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    1. Re:all they need is some pretty artwork by rabiddeity · · Score: 2, Funny

      and it'll be like a DS RPG, but with better stories and fewer boss battles.

      *BAM* Objection!

  6. UK? Text in English? by objekt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn! Sure I can buy it on Ebay, but I speak American.

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  7. Re:finally! by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, so it's like tomshardware.

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