[free-sklyarov] Free book terminology (was Things you can't do with ebooks)
Robert Knop
rknop at pobox.com
Thu Aug 9 06:51:24 PDT 2001
> 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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