[LMB] Beguilement & Legacy on Fictionwise

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:57:37 -0500, "Laura Gallagher" 
<celticdragonfly at gmail.com> wrote:

 > Another question - I don't know what to do with these new
 > "secure formats" and that I have to choose a format before
 > I buy it.  Previous books I've bought give me the option to
 > pick a format each time I download.  Generally I've read them
 > on the screen of my computer in Adobe Acrobat.  When I pick the
 > Secure Adobe Acrobat option on Beguilement, it gives me warnings
 > of I must have just the right software and it won't ever work on
 > a PDA.  That sucks.  I *might* get my old PDA back up and
 > working again one of these days... but if I pick one of those
 > formats, I'm guessing I *can't* read it on my comptuer screen?

 > 'Scuse me, I'm going off into the corner to grumble about how
 > all my favorite authors oughta publish only through Baen,
 > forever-and-ever-amen.

You and me both. Actually (but don't quote me) I *think* the Mobipocket 
secure format will let you read the text both in the Mobipocket Reader 
for PC and in Mobipocket Reader on your Palm (if that's what your PDA 
is, dunno if it'll work on a Windows handheld.)

As for the Baen formula, yupyup ... that's one of the things they do 
right. No encryption.

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