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digitalmars.D.announce - TDPL is an Amazon Kindle bestseller

reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
I'm very happy to announce that TDPL has entered the Amazon Kindle 
bestsellers list for Computer Programming, starting at position 94: 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/156140011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_kinc_1_5_last

Andrei
Jun 18 2011
next sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 6/18/2011 5:36 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 I'm very happy to announce that TDPL has entered the Amazon Kindle bestsellers
 list for Computer Programming, starting at position 94:
 http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/156140011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_kinc_1_5_last


Congrats!
Jun 19 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On 2011-06-18 17:36, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 I'm very happy to announce that TDPL has entered the Amazon Kindle
 bestsellers list for Computer Programming, starting at position 94:
 http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/156140011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_
 kinc_1_5_last


 
Well, I'm still not buying a Kindle. Death to e-books! ;)

Definitely good news. Now if we could only finish getting the issues where the 
compiler is behind TDPL fixed...

- Jonathan M Davis
Jun 19 2011
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 6/19/2011 12:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 Well, I'm still not buying a Kindle. Death to e-books! ;)


I just bought a Kindle and I'm running my unread paperbacks through the scanner 
and then trashing them!
Jun 19 2011
parent reply Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On 2011-06-19 13:26, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 6/19/2011 12:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 Well, I'm still not buying a Kindle. Death to e-books! ;)


 
 I just bought a Kindle and I'm running my unread paperbacks through the
 scanner and then trashing them!


I _much_ prefer reading actual, solid, paper books. I don't particularly like 
reading books in electronic form at all. It works well for documentation and 
searchability, but beyond that, I don't see it as an advantage at all. And in 
those cases, I'd be reading them on the computer, not an e-book reader. And of 
course, then there's the issue of DRM and all that....

So, I don't own an e-book reader and I hope that e-books never become so 
prominent that I'm forced to.

- Jonathan M Davis
Jun 19 2011
next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 6/19/2011 2:18 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 On 2011-06-19 13:26, Walter Bright wrote:

 I just bought a Kindle and I'm running my unread paperbacks through the
 scanner and then trashing them!


 I _much_ prefer reading actual, solid, paper books. I don't particularly like
 reading books in electronic form at all. It works well for documentation and
 searchability, but beyond that, I don't see it as an advantage at all. And in
 those cases, I'd be reading them on the computer, not an e-book reader. And of
 course, then there's the issue of DRM and all that....

 So, I don't own an e-book reader and I hope that e-books never become so
 prominent that I'm forced to.



Your last sentence is interesting. I've read many accounts by people who had 
such a sentiment, and then skeptically thought they'd give an ebook a fair try. 
After a year, they completely changed their minds.

Anyhow, I hear you.

I've been buying books my whole life. I have shelves creaking with them, boxes 
of books in the basement, etc. They've simply become a burden. I'd simply like 
to get all my information properties - pictures, books, papers, music, movies, 
letters, documents - onto a disk. They'll be always there, sorted, categorized, 
instantly available, weighing nothing, and taking up no space.

The advent of enormous and cheap disks has finally made this practical.

The migration of my books to the computer has awaited an easy way to read them. 
The Kindle has finally solved that problem, at least for paperbacks. It doesn't 
work well for larger books (I presume the Kindle DX will, but I think I'd
prefer 
an ipad for large format books.)

I'm scanning my paperbacks to PDFs, and the Kindle will display them one page 
image at a time. DRM is not an issue for that. After a bit of a learning curve, 
I've got it where it doesn't take much time at all to whack off the binding and 
run a paperback through my sheet fed scanner.

The one thing I'm not ripping are movies. Netflix has changed everything for
me. 
With so much available to watch, I don't care to rewatch any old movies.
There's 
no reason to buy, own, archive, or collect a DVD anymore.
Jun 19 2011
next sibling parent reply Charles Hixson <charleshixsn earthlink.net> writes:
Considering that Amazon has the proven capability of removing a book 
from your Kindle after you've bought it, I don't expect that I'll EVER 
decide to invest in a Kindle.  Some other e-book reader is a 
possibility.  The Nook has certain interesting features, and there's one 
that would be a good choice if it weren't twice as expensive as the 
competition.

But until I feel safe investing in an e-book reader, I don't expect to 
buy one.  (And invest is the term.  It's not so much the cost of the 
reader, as the cost of the things read...that can't easily and reliably 
be either read or transferred to another reader.)

On 06/19/2011 06:57 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 6/19/2011 2:18 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 On 2011-06-19 13:26, Walter Bright wrote:

 I just bought a Kindle and I'm running my unread paperbacks through the
 scanner and then trashing them!


 I _much_ prefer reading actual, solid, paper books. I don't
 particularly like
 reading books in electronic form at all. It works well for
 documentation and
 searchability, but beyond that, I don't see it as an advantage at all.
 And in
 those cases, I'd be reading them on the computer, not an e-book
 reader. And of
 course, then there's the issue of DRM and all that....

 So, I don't own an e-book reader and I hope that e-books never become so
 prominent that I'm forced to.



 Your last sentence is interesting. I've read many accounts by people who
 had such a sentiment, and then skeptically thought they'd give an ebook
 a fair try. After a year, they completely changed their minds.

 Anyhow, I hear you.

 I've been buying books my whole life. I have shelves creaking with them,
 boxes of books in the basement, etc. They've simply become a burden. I'd
 simply like to get all my information properties - pictures, books,
 papers, music, movies, letters, documents - onto a disk. They'll be
 always there, sorted, categorized, instantly available, weighing
 nothing, and taking up no space.

 The advent of enormous and cheap disks has finally made this practical.

 The migration of my books to the computer has awaited an easy way to
 read them. The Kindle has finally solved that problem, at least for
 paperbacks. It doesn't work well for larger books (I presume the Kindle
 DX will, but I think I'd prefer an ipad for large format books.)

 I'm scanning my paperbacks to PDFs, and the Kindle will display them one
 page image at a time. DRM is not an issue for that. After a bit of a
 learning curve, I've got it where it doesn't take much time at all to
 whack off the binding and run a paperback through my sheet fed scanner.

 The one thing I'm not ripping are movies. Netflix has changed everything
 for me. With so much available to watch, I don't care to rewatch any old
 movies. There's no reason to buy, own, archive, or collect a DVD anymore.
Jun 19 2011
next sibling parent Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j gmail.com> writes:
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Charles Hixson <charleshixsn earthlink.net

 wrote:



 Considering that Amazon has the proven capability of removing a book from
 your Kindle after you've bought it, I don't expect that I'll EVER decide to
 invest in a Kindle.  Some other e-book reader is a possibility.  The Nook
 has certain interesting features, and there's one that would be a good
 choice if it weren't twice as expensive as the competition.


I own an original basic Nook, and I'm very satisfied. One of the cool things
for people that like messing with these things is that the Nook is running
Android, deep deep down, so I can install custom apps and WPA Supplicant
configs to get on my University Wifi. I can literally drop PDFs and EPUBs
(and probably a bunch of other formats I haven't had to use) onto the Nook
with no external applications and have them detected and available for
reading.

The Nook simple touch (the new basic one) is also very appealing. I've seen
it in stores, and it feels a lot more like a paperback.

On the other hand, the Nook Color has Angry Birds. I can't argue with that
:D
Jun 19 2011
prev sibling parent Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j gmail.com> writes:
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j gmail.com>wrote:


 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Charles Hixson <
 charleshixsn earthlink.net> wrote:


 Considering that Amazon has the proven capability of removing a book from
 your Kindle after you've bought it, I don't expect that I'll EVER decide to
 invest in a Kindle.  Some other e-book reader is a possibility.  The Nook
 has certain interesting features, and there's one that would be a good
 choice if it weren't twice as expensive as the competition.


 I own an original basic Nook, and I'm very satisfied. One of the cool
 things for people that like messing with these things is that the Nook is
 running Android, deep deep down, so I can install custom apps and WPA
 Supplicant configs to get on my University Wifi. I can literally drop PDFs
 and EPUBs (and probably a bunch of other formats I haven't had to use) onto
 the Nook with no external applications and have them detected and available
 for reading.

 The Nook simple touch (the new basic one) is also very appealing. I've seen
 it in stores, and it feels a lot more like a paperback.

 On the other hand, the Nook Color has Angry Birds. I can't argue with that
 :D


Also, the E-Ink Nook is the same price as the Kindle.
Jun 19 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Walter:


 With so much available to watch, I don't care to rewatch any old movies.
There's 
 no reason to buy, own, archive, or collect a DVD anymore.


You find time still to watch movies! :-)

Bye,
bearophile
Jun 20 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:57:22 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:


 The one thing I'm not ripping are movies. Netflix has changed everything  
 for me. With so much available to watch, I don't care to rewatch any old  
 movies. There's no reason to buy, own, archive, or collect a DVD anymore.


Netflix streaming + apple TV is life changing.  I barely ever watch TV  
anymore (and I have a TiVo HD too).  Although I did make an exception for  
the Bruin's Stanley Cup championship :)

-Steve
Jun 20 2011
prev sibling parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Walter Bright" <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:itm9mu$1k99$1 digitalmars.com...

 The one thing I'm not ripping are movies. Netflix has changed everything 
 for me. With so much available to watch, I don't care to rewatch any old 
 movies. There's no reason to buy, own, archive, or collect a DVD anymore.


I don't buy DVDs anymore, but for different reasons: PUOs, DRM, and 
Libraries.

I don't know how it is in other parts of the country (or other countries), 
but Ohio's libraries are good enough to make Netflix look slow, overpriced 
and pointless. I can order whatever I want from almost any library in the 
greater Cleveland area, or any college library in the state, have it shipped 
just down the street (yea, not to my doorstep, but I like having a reason to 
actually get out of the house, so that's a *plus* for me). I can have a 
whole bunch of them out at one time, 10+, etc, no problem. If I want 
something *now* I can just go and pick something out on-the-spot and not 
have to deal with high-compression or high-latency streaming or give up the 
DVD-bonuses or multiple language/subtitle tracks (*not* something you want 
to give up with anime). There's no regular fee, and you don't have any 
problems with late fees as long as you're actually responsible. And even 
with occasional late fees, it's still far cheaper (and can have far more out 
at one time) than Netflix - and that was true back when the late fees were 
$1/day. Now they're around 10-20 cents a day. You'd have to be insanely 
irresponsible for that to even start to compare to the price of Netflix. 
Plus most stuff goes out for 3 weeks at a time, with up to 20 renewals as 
long as no one else has it on hold (and popular stuff they have a ton of 
copies of). Oh, and messed up discs aren't a problem as often as you'd 
think.
Jun 20 2011
next sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 6/20/2011 12:02 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I can have a
 whole bunch of them out at one time, 10+, etc, no problem.


Sounds like your Ohio system is great. There isn't one like that here.

Anyhow, I thought that only one DVD at a time would be an issue with Netflix. 
Turns out, it is fine. It winds up being about 2 a week. There's plenty of 
streaming stuff in between DVDs. I don't really need a reason to watch more
DVDs!
Jun 20 2011
prev sibling parent reply Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:


 I don't buy DVDs anymore, but for different reasons: PUOs, DRM, and 
 Libraries.


Wait. You mean printed books libraries? They rent video content in America?
Jun 20 2011
parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Kagamin" <spam here.lot> wrote in message 
news:itp8ke$ip5$1 digitalmars.com...

 Nick Sabalausky Wrote:


 I don't buy DVDs anymore, but for different reasons: PUOs, DRM, and
 Libraries.


 Wait. You mean printed books libraries? They rent video content in 
 America?


Yup. And CDs. Some of them even have a few videogames.

At least this is all true in the Cleveland area anyway. I don't know about 
other parts of the country.
Jun 21 2011
parent "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> wrote in message 
news:itprae$1it6$1 digitalmars.com...

 "Kagamin" <spam here.lot> wrote in message 
 news:itp8ke$ip5$1 digitalmars.com...

 Nick Sabalausky Wrote:


 I don't buy DVDs anymore, but for different reasons: PUOs, DRM, and
 Libraries.


 Wait. You mean printed books libraries? They rent video content in 
 America?


 Yup. And CDs. Some of them even have a few videogames.


And audiobooks.


 At least this is all true in the Cleveland area anyway. I don't know about 
 other parts of the country.
Jun 21 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Ary Manzana <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:
On 6/20/11 4:18 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 On 2011-06-19 13:26, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 6/19/2011 12:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 Well, I'm still not buying a Kindle. Death to e-books! ;)


 I just bought a Kindle and I'm running my unread paperbacks through the
 scanner and then trashing them!


 I _much_ prefer reading actual, solid, paper books. I don't particularly like
 reading books in electronic form at all. It works well for documentation and
 searchability, but beyond that, I don't see it as an advantage at all. And in
 those cases, I'd be reading them on the computer, not an e-book reader. And of
 course, then there's the issue of DRM and all that....

 So, I don't own an e-book reader and I hope that e-books never become so
 prominent that I'm forced to.

 - Jonathan M Davis


Say that to the trees :-)
Jun 19 2011
next sibling parent reply Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On 2011-06-19 20:43, Ary Manzana wrote:

 On 6/20/11 4:18 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 On 2011-06-19 13:26, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 6/19/2011 12:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 Well, I'm still not buying a Kindle. Death to e-books! ;)


 
 I just bought a Kindle and I'm running my unread paperbacks through the
 scanner and then trashing them!


 
 I _much_ prefer reading actual, solid, paper books. I don't particularly
 like reading books in electronic form at all. It works well for
 documentation and searchability, but beyond that, I don't see it as an
 advantage at all. And in those cases, I'd be reading them on the
 computer, not an e-book reader. And of course, then there's the issue of
 DRM and all that....
 
 So, I don't own an e-book reader and I hope that e-books never become so
 prominent that I'm forced to.
 
 - Jonathan M Davis


 
 Say that to the trees :-)


Honestly, I don't care. As long as people are smart about logging, trees are a 
completely renewable resource. But I don't want to turn this into an 
environment debate.

I don't like reading off screens - especially small screens. I much prefer 
actual books. And I have no problem with other people wanting e-books just so 
long as it doesn't result in my not being to get physical books anymore. I'm 
just afraid that the general trend will lead to physical books dying out, 
which I would consider to be horrible for reading - especially for novels.

- Jonathan M Davis
Jun 19 2011
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 6/19/2011 8:51 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 I don't like reading off screens - especially small screens. I much prefer
 actual books. And I have no problem with other people wanting e-books just so
 long as it doesn't result in my not being to get physical books anymore. I'm
 just afraid that the general trend will lead to physical books dying out,
 which I would consider to be horrible for reading - especially for novels.


I suspect that the pulp paperbacks will largely disappear within 5 years, much 
like film cameras.

The Kindle screen doesn't have the size and aspect ratio of a paperback, I'd 
prefer that it did.
Jun 19 2011
parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Walter Bright" <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:itmh8e$209r$1 digitalmars.com...

 On 6/19/2011 8:51 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 I don't like reading off screens - especially small screens. I much 
 prefer
 actual books. And I have no problem with other people wanting e-books 
 just so
 long as it doesn't result in my not being to get physical books anymore. 
 I'm
 just afraid that the general trend will lead to physical books dying out,
 which I would consider to be horrible for reading - especially for 
 novels.


 I suspect that the pulp paperbacks will largely disappear within 5 years, 
 much like film cameras.


I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away. Than 
again, most consumers are complete morons...(The "dancing pigs" theory and 
all that...)
Jun 20 2011
next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away. Than
 again, most consumers are complete morons...(The "dancing pigs" theory and
 all that...)


Notice that DRM has faded away on downloadable music. I suspect there will be 
increasing pressure to remove it for books, too.
Jun 20 2011
parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Walter Bright" <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:ito7i8$1tb7$1 digitalmars.com...

 On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away. Than
 again, most consumers are complete morons...(The "dancing pigs" theory 
 and
 all that...)


 Notice that DRM has faded away on downloadable music.


Has it? I really haven't been paying attention to (legally) downloadable 
music since when I did look at it, it was all either heavily DRMed or MP3. I 
know the iTunes store started offering DRM-less stuff, but they were 
charging extra for it, so I wasn't interested (especially since I could rip 
the DRM out myself).


 I suspect there will be increasing pressure to remove it for books, too.


I hope so. Then I'd likely be interested in an ebook reader.
Jun 20 2011
next sibling parent reply "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:49:33 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <a a.a> wrote:


 "Walter Bright" <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote in message
 news:ito7i8$1tb7$1 digitalmars.com...

 On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away.  
 Than
 again, most consumers are complete morons...(The "dancing pigs" theory
 and
 all that...)


 Notice that DRM has faded away on downloadable music.


 Has it? I really haven't been paying attention to (legally) downloadable
 music since when I did look at it, it was all either heavily DRMed or  
 MP3. I
 know the iTunes store started offering DRM-less stuff, but they were
 charging extra for it, so I wasn't interested (especially since I could  
 rip
 the DRM out myself).


iTunes (at least the music part of it) is DRM free.  You can no longer
download DRM'd songs from apple (and you can re-download DRM-free versions
of any songs you purchased before they made this change for free).

Yes, they are charging more for some songs, and less for others.  But as
far as I know, there is no fee for removing DRM.  The increase in price
was a compromise to get the artists to agree to remove DRM from all the
songs.  They are also charging less in some cases (but probably only on
songs nobody wants :).  The increase is not exorbitant.  From what I
remember it was 1.29 instead of .99 per song.  I don't know the exact
details, I haven't bought many songs from iTunes, my current ripped tracks
are usually good enough :)

-Steve
Jun 20 2011
parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:op.vxecf1treav7ka localhost.localdomain...

 On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:49:33 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <a a.a> wrote:


 "Walter Bright" <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote in message
 news:ito7i8$1tb7$1 digitalmars.com...

 On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away. 
 Than
 again, most consumers are complete morons...(The "dancing pigs" theory
 and
 all that...)


 Notice that DRM has faded away on downloadable music.


 Has it? I really haven't been paying attention to (legally) downloadable
 music since when I did look at it, it was all either heavily DRMed or 
 MP3. I
 know the iTunes store started offering DRM-less stuff, but they were
 charging extra for it, so I wasn't interested (especially since I could 
 rip
 the DRM out myself).


 iTunes (at least the music part of it) is DRM free.  You can no longer
 download DRM'd songs from apple (and you can re-download DRM-free versions
 of any songs you purchased before they made this change for free).

 Yes, they are charging more for some songs, and less for others.  But as
 far as I know, there is no fee for removing DRM.  The increase in price
 was a compromise to get the artists to agree to remove DRM from all the
 songs.  They are also charging less in some cases (but probably only on
 songs nobody wants :).  The increase is not exorbitant.  From what I
 remember it was 1.29 instead of .99 per song.  I don't know the exact
 details, I haven't bought many songs from iTunes, my current ripped tracks
 are usually good enough :)


Interesting. Yea, I guess my info on that is out of date then. Last I heard 
they had just started adding the option (to some songs) of paying $0.30 
extra to get a DRM-less lossless version. Glad to hear that turned out to 
just be a stepping stone.
Jun 20 2011
parent reply Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:


 The increase is not exorbitant.  From what I
 remember it was 1.29 instead of .99 per song.


 
 Interesting. Yea, I guess my info on that is out of date then. Last I heard 
 they had just started adding the option (to some songs) of paying $0.30 
 extra to get a DRM-less lossless version. Glad to hear that turned out to 
 just be a stepping stone.


?
0.99+0.30=1.29

They just removed an option to dl drm version at a lower price.
Jun 21 2011
parent "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:37:18 -0400, Kagamin <spam here.lot> wrote:


 Nick Sabalausky Wrote:


 The increase is not exorbitant.  From what I
 remember it was 1.29 instead of .99 per song.


 Interesting. Yea, I guess my info on that is out of date then. Last I  
 heard
 they had just started adding the option (to some songs) of paying $0.30
 extra to get a DRM-less lossless version. Glad to hear that turned out  
 to
 just be a stepping stone.


 ?
 0.99+0.30=1.29

 They just removed an option to dl drm version at a lower price.


There are still some songs at 0.99, and some at 0.69 I think too.  It  
depends on what the artist wants to charge.

But I think also, songs you bought with DRM at 0.99 are free to update to  
DRM-free versions, whereas as Nick stated (I didn't know this), it was .30  
to remove DRM from it previously.

The best part about it however, is that if you as an artist want the  
benefit of having your music on the most popular download site, you have  
to make your music available DRM-free.  That's a huge step, and it proves  
that DRM-free downloadable music is a viable business option.

I've always not been a fan of DRM, even though I am respectful of  
copyright law.  It's my legal copy, I should be able to play it on  
whatever I want, whenever I want.  DRM just restricts fair-use, it doesn't  
stop illegal copying.  Especially with music, where a pirate can spend $20  
to get a CD they can rip the tracks from and make perfect DRM-free copies  
to sell.  I think the continued success of iTunes shows this is true.

-Steve
Jun 21 2011
prev sibling parent "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:49:33 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <a a.a> wrote:


 "Walter Bright" <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote in message
 news:ito7i8$1tb7$1 digitalmars.com...

 On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away.  
 Than
 again, most consumers are complete morons...(The "dancing pigs" theory
 and
 all that...)


 Notice that DRM has faded away on downloadable music.


 Has it? I really haven't been paying attention to (legally) downloadable
 music since when I did look at it, it was all either heavily DRMed or  
 MP3. I
 know the iTunes store started offering DRM-less stuff, but they were
 charging extra for it, so I wasn't interested (especially since I could  
 rip
 the DRM out myself).


iTunes (at least the music part of it) is DRM free.  You can no longer
download DRM'd songs from apple (and you can re-download DRM-free versions
of any songs you purchased before they made this change for free).

Yes, they are charging more for some songs, and less for others.  But as
far as I know, there is no fee for removing DRM.  The increase in price
was a compromise to get the artists to agree to remove DRM from all the
songs.  They are also charging less in some cases (but probably only on
songs nobody wants :).  The increase is not exorbitant.  From what I
remember it was 1.29 instead of .99 per song.  I don't know the exact
details, I haven't bought many songs from iTunes, my current ripped tracks
are usually good enough :)

-Steve
Jun 20 2011
prev sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away.


Sadly, any DRM books you buy on the Nook aren't usable on the Kindle and vice
versa.
Jun 20 2011
next sibling parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Walter Bright" <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:itols1$2mh5$1 digitalmars.com...

 On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away.


 Sadly, any DRM books you buy on the Nook aren't usable on the Kindle and 
 vice versa.


Yup. DRM sucks.
Jun 20 2011
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2011-06-21 02:39, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 "Walter Bright"<newshound2 digitalmars.com>  wrote in message
 news:itols1$2mh5$1 digitalmars.com...

 On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away.


 Sadly, any DRM books you buy on the Nook aren't usable on the Kindle and
 vice versa.


 Yup. DRM sucks.


I have a Kindle, the one with the lager screen, and haven't bought a 
single book from their store. I only read DRM free PDF books and files. 
I'm satisfied with my Kindle.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Jun 20 2011
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 6/20/2011 11:37 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 I have a Kindle, the one with the lager screen,


You mean one comes with free beer? Dang, I missed that in the feature chart!
Jun 21 2011
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2011-06-21 11:57, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 6/20/2011 11:37 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 I have a Kindle, the one with the lager screen,


 You mean one comes with free beer? Dang, I missed that in the feature
 chart!


Exactly, they have one version that comes with ale instead :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Jun 21 2011
parent "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Jacob Carlborg" <doob me.com> wrote in message 
news:itpus1$1odg$1 digitalmars.com...

 On 2011-06-21 11:57, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 6/20/2011 11:37 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 I have a Kindle, the one with the lager screen,


 You mean one comes with free beer? Dang, I missed that in the feature
 chart!


 Exactly, they have one version that comes with ale instead :)


I bet those would go well with that Windows book by Pretzold.
Jun 21 2011
prev sibling parent reply Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> writes:
Am 21.06.2011 01:37, schrieb Walter Bright:

 On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away.


 
 Sadly, any DRM books you buy on the Nook aren't usable on the Kindle and
 vice versa.


(I sent this reply yesterday, but it seems like the server lost it)

DRM is generally a bad idea - especially for stuff you buy and not just
rent.
Once the DRM servers are down (because the company is bankrupt or stops
the service) your books/music/movies/... are gone.

Because of that I'd never buy E-Books or music with DRM - if I buy a
book I want to be able to read it again in 20 years - same with music.
Plus I want to be able to play music on any device (like my car radio)
and not just on my PC or iPod.

So I agree with Nick: Until E-Books are DRM free (and have a standard
format that works on any E-Book reader, but I think this is already
available) they (hopefully!) won't supersede paperbacks.

Another thing is that I actually like having real books in my shelf,
just like CDs and computer games (it already pisses me off that the they
are usually distributed in DVD cases now and not anymore in these big
cardboard boxes).

Cheers,
- Daniel
Jun 21 2011
next sibling parent reply "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:04:13 -0400, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com>  
wrote:


 Am 21.06.2011 01:37, schrieb Walter Bright:

 On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away.


 Sadly, any DRM books you buy on the Nook aren't usable on the Kindle and
 vice versa.


 (I sent this reply yesterday, but it seems like the server lost it)

 DRM is generally a bad idea - especially for stuff you buy and not just
 rent.
 Once the DRM servers are down (because the company is bankrupt or stops
 the service) your books/music/movies/... are gone.


This actually happened with Yahoo music.  I had about 60 songs in Yahoo  
music (used to be MusicMatch) that had DRM in them when they decided to  
close up shop.  Want to know what their solution was?  Burn them to CD and  
then re-rip them.  Imagine that, a music download site *promoting*  
removing the DRM from music!  After a certain date, if you hadn't done  
that, and your computer crashed, you were SOL.

I happened to burn all of them to disk about a week before my motherboard  
fried, so I was glad I did that :)  The only issue is, now when I rip  
them, there is no track information.  So I have to listen to each song,  
then hand-type in the track info.  *THAT* is annoying.

I'm all for DRM-free stuff, it's definitely a better way to go.

-Steve
Jun 21 2011
parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:op.vxfgdv1ceav7ka localhost.localdomain...

 On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:04:13 -0400, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> 
 wrote:


 Am 21.06.2011 01:37, schrieb Walter Bright:

 On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away.


 Sadly, any DRM books you buy on the Nook aren't usable on the Kindle and
 vice versa.


 (I sent this reply yesterday, but it seems like the server lost it)

 DRM is generally a bad idea - especially for stuff you buy and not just
 rent.
 Once the DRM servers are down (because the company is bankrupt or stops
 the service) your books/music/movies/... are gone.


 This actually happened with Yahoo music.  I had about 60 songs in Yahoo 
 music (used to be MusicMatch) that had DRM in them when they decided to 
 close up shop.  Want to know what their solution was?  Burn them to CD and 
 then re-rip them.  Imagine that, a music download site *promoting* 
 removing the DRM from music!  After a certain date, if you hadn't done 
 that, and your computer crashed, you were SOL.


Heh, so the only way Yahoo allowed you to keep the music you legitimately 
bought is by degrading the quality (I'm assuming they weren't lossless to 
begin with?). About what I'd expect from those yahoos.
Jun 21 2011
parent "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:27:52 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <a a.a> wrote:


 "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> wrote in message
 news:op.vxfgdv1ceav7ka localhost.localdomain...

 On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:04:13 -0400, Daniel Gibson  
 <metalcaedes gmail.com>
 wrote:


 Am 21.06.2011 01:37, schrieb Walter Bright:

 On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away.


 Sadly, any DRM books you buy on the Nook aren't usable on the Kindle  
 and
 vice versa.


 (I sent this reply yesterday, but it seems like the server lost it)

 DRM is generally a bad idea - especially for stuff you buy and not just
 rent.
 Once the DRM servers are down (because the company is bankrupt or stops
 the service) your books/music/movies/... are gone.


 This actually happened with Yahoo music.  I had about 60 songs in Yahoo
 music (used to be MusicMatch) that had DRM in them when they decided to
 close up shop.  Want to know what their solution was?  Burn them to CD  
 and
 then re-rip them.  Imagine that, a music download site *promoting*
 removing the DRM from music!  After a certain date, if you hadn't done
 that, and your computer crashed, you were SOL.


 Heh, so the only way Yahoo allowed you to keep the music you legitimately
 bought is by degrading the quality (I'm assuming they weren't lossless to
 begin with?). About what I'd expect from those yahoos.


The quality was not bad, it was 360k I believe.  The quality certainly was  
not an issue (even after burning and re-encoding using iTunes).

What was (and still is, since I haven't finished doing it!) an issue is  
the process to de-authorize the content.  It would have been nicer to  
provide a tool to do it instead of making me 1) waste writable CDs, 2)  
waste time burning CDs and 3) waste time trying to figure out what tags to  
put on each song.

But in the end, having playable songs is better than just having to throw  
away the songs, and what am I going to do, complain to some business  
that's going out of business? :)

Yeah, DRM is sucky, especially for things like books and music.  I can see  
it being used for some place that you rent/borrow things  
(library/netflix), but to sell me a copy and not let me do what I want  
with it is crap.

-Steve
Jun 21 2011
prev sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 6/21/2011 6:04 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:

 Another thing is that I actually like having real books in my shelf,
 just like CDs and computer games (it already pisses me off that the they
 are usually distributed in DVD cases now and not anymore in these big
 cardboard boxes).


I do too, until there get to be too many of them! Then they're a burden.

I have too many.

I don't mind DRM on things that I rent, such as Netflix movies. I'd have no 
problem renting books from Amazon that are DRM'd. I'd pay some modest monthly 
fee to Amazon if I could 'rent' one book at a time on my Kindle, up to so many 
per month.

I also wouldn't mind DRM if the cost is low enough, but most DRM books on the 
Kindle are at price points where I'd want to own them free & clear.
Jun 21 2011
parent reply Caligo <iteronvexor gmail.com> writes:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:

 On 6/21/2011 6:04 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:

 Another thing is that I actually like having real books in my shelf,
 just like CDs and computer games (it already pisses me off that the they
 are usually distributed in DVD cases now and not anymore in these big
 cardboard boxes).


 I do too, until there get to be too many of them! Then they're a burden.

 I have too many.

 I don't mind DRM on things that I rent, such as Netflix movies. I'd have no
 problem renting books from Amazon that are DRM'd. I'd pay some modest
 monthly fee to Amazon if I could 'rent' one book at a time on my Kindle, up
 to so many per month.

 I also wouldn't mind DRM if the cost is low enough, but most DRM books on
 the Kindle are at price points where I'd want to own them free & clear.


yall forgetting about digital libraries such as http://my.safaribooksonline.com/
As a university student I get free access and I can read anything
anywhere.  The idea of ownership is obsolete. Strategic access is the
future.
Jun 21 2011
parent "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Caligo" <iteronvexor gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1085.1308685320.14074.digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com...

 On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Walter Bright
 <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:

 On 6/21/2011 6:04 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:

 Another thing is that I actually like having real books in my shelf,
 just like CDs and computer games (it already pisses me off that the they
 are usually distributed in DVD cases now and not anymore in these big
 cardboard boxes).


 I do too, until there get to be too many of them! Then they're a burden.

 I have too many.

 I don't mind DRM on things that I rent, such as Netflix movies. I'd have 
 no
 problem renting books from Amazon that are DRM'd. I'd pay some modest
 monthly fee to Amazon if I could 'rent' one book at a time on my Kindle, 
 up
 to so many per month.

 I also wouldn't mind DRM if the cost is low enough, but most DRM books on
 the Kindle are at price points where I'd want to own them free & clear.


 yall forgetting about digital libraries such as 
 http://my.safaribooksonline.com/
 As a university student I get free access and I can read anything
 anywhere.  The idea of ownership is obsolete. Strategic access is the
 future.


s/obsolete/not trendy/
s/Strategic/Restricted/
Jun 21 2011
prev sibling parent reply Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:
They won't die out. They'll just become rarer. Just like vinyl (and
you can still buy vinyl!).
Jun 19 2011
parent Ary Manzana <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:
On 6/20/11 10:56 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

 They won't die out. They'll just become rarer. Just like vinyl (and
 you can still buy vinyl!).


I hope you are not talking about the trees! ;-)
Jun 19 2011
prev sibling parent reply Don <nospam nospam.com> writes:
Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 On 2011-06-19 13:26, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 6/19/2011 12:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 Well, I'm still not buying a Kindle. Death to e-books! ;)


 I just bought a Kindle and I'm running my unread paperbacks through the
 scanner and then trashing them!


 
 I _much_ prefer reading actual, solid, paper books. I don't particularly like 
 reading books in electronic form at all. It works well for documentation and 
 searchability, but beyond that, I don't see it as an advantage at all. And in 
 those cases, I'd be reading them on the computer, not an e-book reader. And of 
 course, then there's the issue of DRM and all that....
 
 So, I don't own an e-book reader and I hope that e-books never become so 
 prominent that I'm forced to.
 
 - Jonathan M Davis


There's a solution:

http://smellofbooks.com/
Jun 20 2011
next sibling parent Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On 2011-06-20 00:11, Don wrote:

 Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 On 2011-06-19 13:26, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 6/19/2011 12:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 Well, I'm still not buying a Kindle. Death to e-books! ;)


 
 I just bought a Kindle and I'm running my unread paperbacks through the
 scanner and then trashing them!


 
 I _much_ prefer reading actual, solid, paper books. I don't particularly
 like reading books in electronic form at all. It works well for
 documentation and searchability, but beyond that, I don't see it as an
 advantage at all. And in those cases, I'd be reading them on the
 computer, not an e-book reader. And of course, then there's the issue of
 DRM and all that....
 
 So, I don't own an e-book reader and I hope that e-books never become so
 prominent that I'm forced to.
 
 - Jonathan M Davis


 
 There's a solution:
 
 http://smellofbooks.com/


Ouch.

- Jonathan M Davis
Jun 20 2011
prev sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 6/20/2011 12:11 AM, Don wrote:

 There's a solution:

 http://smellofbooks.com/


It says it's a "new book" smell. I actually like the old book smell.
Jun 20 2011
parent Don <nospam nospam.com> writes:
Walter Bright wrote:

 On 6/20/2011 12:11 AM, Don wrote:

 There's a solution:

 http://smellofbooks.com/


 
 It says it's a "new book" smell. I actually like the old book smell.


Check the full product list. There's an old book smell as well. And 
"Eau, you have cats". Make sure you read the warnings.
Jun 20 2011
prev sibling parent reply Brad Anderson <eco gnuk.net> writes:
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <
SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> wrote:


 I'm very happy to announce that TDPL has entered the Amazon Kindle
 bestsellers list for Computer Programming, starting at position 94:
 http://www.amazon.com/gp/**bestsellers/digital-text/**
 156140011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_kinc_**1_5_last<http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/156140011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_kinc_1_5_last>

 Andrei


I just got it for the Kindle so I'm going to go ahead and attribute this
success to myself.  Go me and my money!  Once I finish it I'll write a
review.  Maybe that'll bump it up a spot in the best reviewed category ;)
Jun 20 2011
parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 6/20/11 3:28 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:

 On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
 <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org <mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org>>
 wrote:

     I'm very happy to announce that TDPL has entered the Amazon Kindle
     bestsellers list for Computer Programming, starting at position 94:
     http://www.amazon.com/gp/__bestsellers/digital-text/__156140011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_kinc___1_5_last
     <http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/156140011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_kinc_1_5_last>

     Andrei


 I just got it for the Kindle so I'm going to go ahead and attribute this
 success to myself.  Go me and my money!


That must be indeed true. TDPL only stayed briefly on the bestsellers 
list, and that was because of a brief surge in Kindle sales this weekend.


 Once I finish it I'll write a review. Maybe that'll bump it up a spot
 in the best reviewed category ;)


Well don't assume your review will be favorable before you finish 
reading :o).


Thanks,

Andrei
Jun 20 2011