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Ebooks #18

Open seanking1983 opened 13 years ago

seanking1983 commented 13 years ago

Ebooks is apparently one of the key trends. I will just pave some way here for how we can add this into ourbulletins in the future.

Issue 1: does publisher/retailer has any restriction on rental and trading of the ebooks?

Issue 2: for a ebook owner, possible ways for him/her to trade: online view (for some time), download with a number of trial days, permanent download (without trial days limitation)

chenx commented 13 years ago

Once downloaded, always downloaded. Trial is not practical. Online view is an established technology used by many sites, we don't have to reinvent the wheel.

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----- Original Message ----- From: seanking1983 reply@reply.github.com Date: Monday, September 12, 2011 10:33 pm Subject: [OurBulletins] Ebooks (#18) To: chenx chenx@hawaii.edu

Ebooks is apparently one of the key trends. I will just pave some way here for how we can add this into ourbulletins in the future.

Issue 1: does publisher/retailer has any restriction on rental and trading of the ebooks?

Issue 2: for a ebook owner, possible ways for him/her to trade: online view (for some time), download with a number of trial days, permanent download (without trial days limitation)

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/zsxking/OurBulletins/issues/18

zsxking commented 13 years ago

Time limited readability is doable with proper DRM mechanism, just the same as digital borrowing.

But a much easier way is to trial for limited pages, like the first chapter.