Amazon has said that they aggregate the highlights. They are not passing on anyone's notes. That is not much different than saying "these are the most popular products sold on our site."
They are not stealing your notes! It helps no one when you conflate the two ideas.
Yes, your notes are stored on Amazon servers. When you delete that book you can download it again and get your notes back. When you open the book on another device you can access your notes. This is a typical archival service unrelated to the "popular highlights" service that you have been getting all hot and bothered about.
Amazon has already been doing this. Here is a web page that shows the data.
http://kindle.amazon.com/popular_highlights
Where is the copyright violation? Where is the privacy violation? Save you righteous indignation for a situation that calls for it.
The Kindle (and I suspect other ereaders) will let you drag text files and read them directly. For many ebooks that is sufficient. For more complex layout you can use various other file formats. Some can be directly read on a Kindle 2 (PRC, MOBI, AZW), others can be converted with little effort (HTML, DOC, RTF). The Kindle DX can direct accept PDF. The Kindle 2 can display many PDF files after a conversion to make the book layout flexible to display on a smaller screen.
Yes, the Kindle is cool. I find that I read a lot more now that I have one. The reading experience is just so much better for me than a book. Books are heavy, bulky, clumsy, and dead.
The price is well worth the convenience to me. On the other hand, a similarly priced xbox would be overpriced junk for which I have no need.
The Kindle can be filled up with lots of non-DRM books both free and commercial as well as your own documents. Yes, the publisher demand DRM. Most ebook publishers do. This is the same for most ebook readers, not just Amazon's. I hope that eventually, this phase will pass. If not, I won't cry over it. There are very few books that I care enough about worry about whether I own it or not. Most of those I still buy in dead tree editions. I don't know the particulars about the original story here. Like many such stories, the full truth can be a tricky thing.
There are upsides to books and downsides. Same with an ebook. For many of us, the ebook upsides outweigh the downsides. For you, the opposite. That's OK with me if its OK with you.
It would be better in the long run if Amazon would open up the kindle to other ebook formats (the DRM kind. it already supports the non-DRM formats). We really need a common ebook format that can be used on all devices while not scaring off the authors and publishers. (PDF is too rigid for this) Of course it would be best for end users if we could just drop the DRM, but that doesn't seem likely for now.
The kindle is a great device. Those who own them, love them. I read more now that I have the convenience of carrying a small library with me. I still read paper books,to , but the kindle is an appropriate alternative.
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Why do sites keep mixing up the notes and the highlights?
Amazon has said that they aggregate the highlights. They are not passing on anyone's notes. That is not much different than saying "these are the most popular products sold on our site."
They are not stealing your notes! It helps no one when you conflate the two ideas.
Yes, your notes are stored on Amazon servers. When you delete that book you can download it again and get your notes back. When you open the book on another device you can access your notes. This is a typical archival service unrelated to the "popular highlights" service that you have been getting all hot and bothered about.
Amazon has already been doing this. Here is a web page that shows the data.
http://kindle.amazon.com/popular_highlights
Where is the copyright violation? Where is the privacy violation? Save you righteous indignation for a situation that calls for it.
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That is exactly what Amazon did when it created AZW. All it is a MOBI/PRC file with a custom wrapper that allows DRM.
We may or may not like the DRM, but Amazon feels that it was the only way to get publishers to sell their books as ebooks.
As the market matures, it may be possible to eliminate the DRM (unlikely) or to migrate to a more flexible version (more likely).
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PrometheeFeu you are wrong.
The Kindle (and I suspect other ereaders) will let you drag text files and read them directly. For many ebooks that is sufficient. For more complex layout you can use various other file formats. Some can be directly read on a Kindle 2 (PRC, MOBI, AZW), others can be converted with little effort (HTML, DOC, RTF). The Kindle DX can direct accept PDF. The Kindle 2 can display many PDF files after a conversion to make the book layout flexible to display on a smaller screen.
Be cool
Ima,
Yes, the Kindle is cool. I find that I read a lot more now that I have one. The reading experience is just so much better for me than a book. Books are heavy, bulky, clumsy, and dead.
The price is well worth the convenience to me. On the other hand, a similarly priced xbox would be overpriced junk for which I have no need.
The Kindle can be filled up with lots of non-DRM books both free and commercial as well as your own documents. Yes, the publisher demand DRM. Most ebook publishers do. This is the same for most ebook readers, not just Amazon's. I hope that eventually, this phase will pass. If not, I won't cry over it. There are very few books that I care enough about worry about whether I own it or not. Most of those I still buy in dead tree editions. I don't know the particulars about the original story here. Like many such stories, the full truth can be a tricky thing.
There are upsides to books and downsides. Same with an ebook. For many of us, the ebook upsides outweigh the downsides. For you, the opposite. That's OK with me if its OK with you.
Re: Who would want this?
@bob "With the down side of the Kindle, why would anyone buy it?"
Because there are so many other, more important, upsides.
It would be better to open the ebooks
It would be better in the long run if Amazon would open up the kindle to other ebook formats (the DRM kind. it already supports the non-DRM formats). We really need a common ebook format that can be used on all devices while not scaring off the authors and publishers. (PDF is too rigid for this) Of course it would be best for end users if we could just drop the DRM, but that doesn't seem likely for now.
The kindle is a great device. Those who own them, love them. I read more now that I have the convenience of carrying a small library with me. I still read paper books,to , but the kindle is an appropriate alternative.