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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. First ebooks by Smelly+Jeffrey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The first ebooks should be should be of old Nintendo Power magazines!

  2. Re:$30? Seriously? by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No actually you pay $19.95 for a R4 and then $11.95 for a 2gig miniSD card then download everything you can from project Gutenberg.

    If you own a DS, you NEED to own a R4.

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  3. Re:DRM? by meringuoid · · Score: 4, Interesting
    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.

    As a matter of fact Dickens faced enormous problems with piracy at the time. It seems that certain rogue countries in that pre-Berne Convention era saw fit to disregard Dickens's copyrights and allowed pirate printers to profit by his works without paying the author so much as a penny.

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