[LINK] Fwd: Re: [OWW-SFF: Writing] Re: Google eBooks launch

[Jan Whitaker]

 From a discussion about google's new ebooks:

>Subject: Re: [OWW-SFF: Writing] Re: Google eBooks launch
>
>Right now, I only have one beef with Google Books. And it's not with the
>bookstore per se. It's with the program they tell you you HAVE to use to
>download. Last night, I followed Google Books directions on how to
>download books to my reader. Downloaded Adobe Digital Editions,
>registered, and plugged in my Nook, just like it said.
>
>The damn thing tried to delete the books I'd downloaded from Barnes and
>Noble, Project Gutenberg and Google Books before they opened the
>bookstore. Told me that they were licensed to a different user and I
>shouldn't have them. Needless to say, I stopped the program and ripped
>it out. I only lost one book, and because of the way that the filenames
>are coded, I'm not sure which book it was.
>
>So, if you want to use Google Books, here's my advice. There's a add-on
>for Firefox called Epub. You can read and download from Google Books
>using it, and it doesn't get uppity about books you've legally
>downloaded from another service.


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