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> The software itself (and this applies to Kindle and Nook) is rather ugly and it feels slow to react. Both need Apple to come in and make them work. Yeah, and
by shrikant 15y ago
> The software itself (and this applies to Kindle and Nook) is rather ugly and it feels slow to react. Both need Apple to come in and make them work.
Yeah, and I'd lose the ability to side-load books, and would have to void the warranty on the device to be able to read books from non-approved sources.
As someone who's never bought an e-book from Amazon for my Kindle, no thank you.
- MrScruff 15y agoAre you inferring it's not possible to read material from a non-approved source on the iPad or iPhone? Because that's not the case. Neither is it the case with videos or music for that matter.
- shrikant 15y agoNope, I know all of the above (have both devices). I would think that when the primary use-case is reading, then books are to e-readers what apps are to smartphones, and I'm not really a fan of the "single point of acquisition" model.
- falling 15y agoWhen the primary use case is reading, then books are to e-readers what music is to iPods.
- msbarnett 15y agoIf we want to know what terms Apple would apply to ebook readers and sell books under, we don't need to reason by analogy from the restrictions on smartphone app loading and the terms they use to sell apps for smartphones. They already sell ebooks and make ebook readers, which allow sideloading.
- msbarnett 15y agoYou can side-load non-DRM'd books from any outside source in iBooks. That's no different than Amazon's support for outside ebooks.
- JeremyBanks 15y agoDoes eBooks have iCloud support for non-Apple books yet? Amazon now allows me to upload all of my non-Amazon books by email, and I can re-download them onto any Kindle device like books I purchased from Amazon.
- tjakab 15y agoThey don't... yet. iCloud just launched last month. I expect support will be added as the service grows.
- rkudeshi 15y agoActually, iCloud does support sideloaded books. In addition to some iBooks, I have a good number of DRM-free ePub and PDF books that are taking up a good portion of my free 5GB in iCloud.
- ugh 15y agoiBooks supports ePub and PDF, iOS supports MP3 and AAC and can play h.264 encoded videos. Apple sells music without DRM (just like Amazon) and videos as well as books with DRM (just like Amazon). Loading your own media without DRM is never a problem. Apple is about as permissive as Amazon when it comes to selling and playing or displaying media. You might be confused by apps. Apple is indeed less permissive with them.
- lreeves 15y agoAdditionally iBooks will even synchronize your bookmarks for sideloaded books between devices (something that Amazon has removed from Kindles).
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