Baen books sell lots of ebooks, through the Webscription web site. The e-books they sell are available in multiple different, unencrypted formats. Oh, and they also make a fair number of their books available for free download in the Baen Free Library - usually the first book or two in a series, so you can get properly hooked and then start buying the rest, of course.
They also, on occasion, ship CDs filled with e-books with hardback editions of certain of their books - and these CDs are explicitly OK to distribute and copy and share (as long as you don't yourself try to make anymoney off them). There are even web sites that offer CD images for download.
I usually read Baen's e-books on my Palm Tungsten T3 with the MobiPocket Reader, but the books are also available in HTML, RTF, and Rocket Ebook format, so you should be able to read them in one of the available formats.
And just to say it again: they're not encrypted, DRM:ed, or anything else.
Axis (makers of network printer servers, web cameras, etc) also make 'network document servers' - essentially, a small dedicated computer to which you attach the scanner, and then it scans the document and emails the result or makes it available through a small web server: http://www.axis.com/products/axis_70u/index.htm
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Baen books sell lots of ebooks, through the Webscription web site. The e-books they sell are available in multiple different, unencrypted formats. Oh, and they also make a fair number of their books available for free download in the Baen Free Library - usually the first book or two in a series, so you can get properly hooked and then start buying the rest, of course.
They also, on occasion, ship CDs filled with e-books with hardback editions of certain of their books - and these CDs are explicitly OK to distribute and copy and share (as long as you don't yourself try to make anymoney off them). There are even web sites that offer CD images for download.
I usually read Baen's e-books on my Palm Tungsten T3 with the MobiPocket Reader, but the books are also available in HTML, RTF, and Rocket Ebook format, so you should be able to read them in one of the available formats.
And just to say it again: they're not encrypted, DRM:ed, or anything else.
That is how e-books can become mainstream.
Axis (makers of network printer servers, web cameras, etc) also make 'network document servers' - essentially, a small dedicated computer to which you attach the scanner, and then it scans the document and emails the result or makes it available through a small web server: http://www.axis.com/products/axis_70u/index.htm