On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, James Adcock wrote:
Again, I must once again refer you to Wattpad, for the fifth? time.
I DID download and install the Wattpad and I DID discuss this earlier and again it appeared to me to only be yet another app that displays a slightly hacked version of ascii txt files shipped from their own private server. It did not appear to have any way to get an ePUB or MOBI book from a location I choose on the internet.
You seem to be avoiding the point that they say it IS an .epub you read with Wattpad. . .and iBooks. . .and many others. You HAVE downloaded .epubs, or so it would appear, and _I_ have, so it would appear, if we believe it's the iPad default. You are hitting the target, but trying to deny it. Do more research. . .perhaps you can find ONE that not .epub! You could be famous!!!
I was going to get after you about that, and the other things nook, Sony or Kindle do to herd you onto the "company store" turf.
ALL of the materials I have mentioned are free of charge. Once again. . .the target has been hit. . .you are in denial.
iTunes and the Apple App Store are both "company store" turfs as far as I can see -- especially when Jobs can tell Stanza to take out a feature that customers to share free books with their friends--a feature they have to come to rely on-- and why -- because Jobs is introducing a competitive app and Jobs wants to cook the books so that his app wins. That if one even wants to install a free ePUB book via *USB* you *still* have to run it through the iTunes "company store" is particularly galling to me. I don't understand why you have to take this path if Apple isn't DRM'ing the free books???
For the record:
Nook "company store" -- nook is hopelessly "locked down" as I have said many times.
Gee, I wonder who said all that "company store" stuff here before you did??? Enough. . .you are now just talking to yourself, unless you can tempt bowerbird to keep after you.
Sony "company store" -- don't know the wifi version if any, I just know that lots of people who work with PG/DP transfer ebooks to Sony via USB.
Kindle "company store" -- offers about the same "features" as the iBooks "company store", plus you can USB by *direct connection* to your computer without having to go though an iTunes-like "company store" applet, plus it has an "experiment web browser" that allows you to download free MOBI books directly from the internet via whispernet, plus it allows one to quickly and easily write a "Magic Catalog" type ebook which in turn can pull down other free MOBI books from the internet via whispernet. Now whispernet is slow and unreliable compared to wifi at least in the 'burbs where I live. And the Kindle browser is weak and sucky -- but at least it hasn't been "pimped" to prevent the download of free ebooks from the internet! And you can also do all these things with PDF Files and TXT files and they will all also actually end up inside your Kindle on the standard bookshelf so that they will still be there when you want to read them, whether on the beach or on an airplane, etc. But the slow and unreliable whispernet plus the weak web browser all reasons why I am still looking for an ebook reader that uses wifi, which hasn't "pimped" that wifi, and hasn't "pimped" the web browser either!
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