Comments on: Accessing your Kindle on the iPhone http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/iphone-kindle/ A blind photographer's exploration of his vision through photography and accessibility. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:07:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ricky Buchanan http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/iphone-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-2265 Ricky Buchanan Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:47:05 +0000 http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=2143#comment-2265 The problem with international copyright is that the publishing companies buy "rights" to sell a book or an ebook or an audiobook in a specific country. So if Amazon owns the ebook rights to sell the book in, say, the USA and Canada and the UK they won't be allowed to sell it to me in Australia. The biggest problem with this system is that often publishing companies buy the rights to sell ebooks or audiobooks and then don't produce them. So it's possible that there's NO way for me to legally buy a certain ebook in Australia even though the ebook exists and is for sale legally in another country. This drives me crazy, for obvious reasons! Incidentally, it's a similar reason (but not quite the same) that the bookshare.org archive is basically only available to USA residents. That drives me nuts too, because there isn't ANY ebook repository for print disabled users in Australia so there's no legal way at all to get ebooks for people with a print disability. THAT's crazy. The problem with international copyright is that the publishing companies buy “rights” to sell a book or an ebook or an audiobook in a specific country. So if Amazon owns the ebook rights to sell the book in, say, the USA and Canada and the UK they won’t be allowed to sell it to me in Australia.

The biggest problem with this system is that often publishing companies buy the rights to sell ebooks or audiobooks and then don’t produce them. So it’s possible that there’s NO way for me to legally buy a certain ebook in Australia even though the ebook exists and is for sale legally in another country. This drives me crazy, for obvious reasons!

Incidentally, it’s a similar reason (but not quite the same) that the bookshare.org archive is basically only available to USA residents. That drives me nuts too, because there isn’t ANY ebook repository for print disabled users in Australia so there’s no legal way at all to get ebooks for people with a print disability. THAT’s crazy.

]]> By: atmacjournal (Ricky Buchanan) http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/iphone-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-2313 atmacjournal (Ricky Buchanan) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:36:43 +0000 http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=2143#comment-2313 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/oberazzi">@oberazzi</a> has published an article on the accessibility of the iPhone's Kindle application: http://is.gd/lQbo @oberazzi has published an article on the accessibility of the iPhone’s Kindle application: http://is.gd/lQbo

]]> By: Tim http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/iphone-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-2215 Tim Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:47:13 +0000 http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=2143#comment-2215 I read somewhere that there is new legislation in the works to bring us copyright and patent law more in line with the international community. I read somewhere that there is new legislation in the works to bring us copyright and patent law more in line with the international community.

]]> By: Ricky Buchanan http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/iphone-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-2214 Ricky Buchanan Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:33:37 +0000 http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=2143#comment-2214 Most annoying thing about this app, for me, is it's only avaliable in the USA so I can't even check it out! I wish somebody tell the copyright lawmakers that the net is now global and information doesn't respect international boundaries anymore. Trying to make it do that is stupid. Most annoying thing about this app, for me, is it’s only avaliable in the USA so I can’t even check it out!

I wish somebody tell the copyright lawmakers that the net is now global and information doesn’t respect international boundaries anymore. Trying to make it do that is stupid.

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