[free-sklyarov] Free book terminology (was Things you can't do with ebooks)

[Jon O .]

Pay-Per-View books...?


On 09-Aug-2001, Robert Knop wrote:
> > I think we need a seperate word for ebooks that are "locked up" 
> > (media?) such as Adobe and Microsoft's ebook's. So one would 
> > know when someone is talking about the above or an ebook in 
> > HTML/Text/etc.
> 
> How about a crippleBook?  That refers back to "CrippleWare," the form of
> ShareWare which had key functionality disabled until you paid the
> licensing fee.  Not really the same thing, since *here* you pay the
> licensing fee just to get the crippled version.  But it does get the
> point across that you're getting something limited.
> 
> -Rob
> 
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