{"id":18089,"date":"2017-06-02T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18089"},"modified":"2017-06-02T16:05:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:05:30","slug":"where-is-e-book-interoperability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/02\/where-is-e-book-interoperability\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is E-book Interoperability?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkville.com\/where-is-ebook-interoperability\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.kirkville.com\/where-is-ebook-interoperability\/\">\n<p>Not only do I need to sign into two different accounts, but I don&rsquo;t get all the benefits of Amazon Prime on my Kindle account (my Prime subscription is on my main account; I&rsquo;ve added the second account, and I can get free shipping, but nothing else: no Kindle Lending Library, no Prime Video, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This wouldn&rsquo;t be a problem if these ebooks didn&rsquo;t have DRM. I would be able to simply download them to my Mac, then send them to the Kindle account of the main account. But Amazon offers no solution to this issue; a problem that they created back in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If music has managed to shed DRM, why have ebooks resisted? Part of what caused Jobs to issue his statement was a European Commission investigation into interoperability of digital files; why have there been no similar investigation regarding ebooks?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And he&rsquo;s talking about e-books that are part of the same platform, to say nothing of interoperability with iBooks and Nook. The situation is <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/03\/apple-tv-penetration-hits-5\/\">even worse for video<\/a>, as you can often buy e-books direct from the publisher (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.objc.io\/books\/\">objc.io<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takecontrolbooks.com\">Take Control<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk McElhearn: Not only do I need to sign into two different accounts, but I don&rsquo;t get all the benefits of Amazon Prime on my Kindle account (my Prime subscription is on my main account; I&rsquo;ve added the second account, and I can get free shipping, but nothing else: no Kindle Lending Library, no Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,182,166,93,165,1348],"class_list":["post-18089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-drm","tag-ebooks","tag-ibooks","tag-kindle","tag-nook"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18101,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18089\/revisions\/18101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}