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julielit
·hace 2 años·discuss
Sorry, but this is not true. Every significant publisher produces EPUB these days. Most reading apps support EPUB (including apps from Apple and Google), Readium and EDRLab offer open-source SDKs that ease the development of mobile, desktop and Web reading software with strong EPUB 3 support, including MathML. Readium LCP is a DRM for EPUB, especially for public libraries that need an e-lending end date. More, EPUB is much more accessible than PDF for blind people and other people with disabilities. PDF has no interest for ebooks (but for short documents, yes).
julielit
·hace 3 años·discuss
It is fair to give more information about the information exposed on a website, especially when it comes to partnering with AI systems. There is an international effort which includes such information. It is done under the auspices of the W3C. See https://www.w3.org/community/tdmrep/. It has been developed to implement the Text & Data Mining + AI "opt-out" that is legal in Europe. It does not use robots.txt because this one is about indexing a website and should stay focus on it. The information about website managers is contained in the /.well-known directory, in a JSON-LD file, which is much more well structured than robots.txt. Why not adhere to an international effort rather than creating N fragmented initiatives?
julielit
·hace 5 años·discuss
Why do we use DeDRM tools or equivalent? to be able to move a file from one ereader to another, from another brand; to feel that we "own" ebooks we have "bought"; to be sure that we keep ebooks in case the booksellers goes off-market; to be able to give and ebook we bought to a few friends.

What does kindle and other proprietary DRMs offer? none of it.

What do companies adopting Readium LCP offer? all of the above.

The original https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools is still open, everybody can use it, Amazon, Adobe, B&N, Kobo don't bother, so it can be used, updated without bits of Readium LCP. LCP which is moving in the right direction IMO: being able to give an ebook to a friend by simply giving the password is great.

Plus, why do some people want to keep and share with the world ebooks they had for free from a public library: they totally crush the only solution which makes litterature available to everyone: if this spreads, libraries will not be able to get ebooks from major publishers anymore. Is it what they really want?