Tag: epub

Digital Content

Cory Doctorow describes this problem pretty bluntly as: “If you can’t open it, you don’t own it.”

What You’re Buying When You Buy Digital Content

How Do I Get Rid of the DRM on My Ebooks and Video?

Just as a quick primer here, we should note what exactly it is you’re purchasing when you buy digital content, and why this problem exists in the first place. When you purchase digital content, you’re typically just buying a license to use it. You do not “own” the books or media you purchase in traditional terms. For example, here’sAmazon’s Terms of Use (bolding ours):P

Upon your download of Kindle Content and payment of any applicable fees (including applicable taxes), the Content Provider grants you a non-exclusive right to view, use, and display such Kindle Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Kindle or a Reading Application or as otherwise permitted as part of the Service, solely on the number of Kindles or Supported Devices specified in the Kindle Store, and solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider.P

Most Terms of Use at other digital stores follow Amazon here, and they all also have something similar to this little caveat:P

In addition, you may not bypass, modify, defeat, or circumvent security features that protect the Kindle Content.P

So, just so you know: removing DRM from ebooks and videos is typically against the Terms of Use. Most services like Amazon or Barnes and Noble allow you to store your books or video purchases in the cloud so you can download them again later. But they’re always restricted to their apps.

Epubor Ultimate Converter helps you one-click to decrypt and convert eBooks purchased from Kindle, Nook, Sony, Kobo and Google online eBook stores in batch. This fantastic and award-winning software is a “must-have” tool for all eBook lovers. It’s the most easy-to-use eBook format conversion software ever, and it’s 100% safe with no adware, spyware, or viruses.

ePUB DRM Removal freeware- ePUBee!

The first software to remove DRM protections from adobe digital editions with no quality losing.

Just remove ePUB files DRM header, no change on the files. Then read the ePUB on iPad, iPhone, iTouch, Sony Reader, Android, Kobo, Nook etc.

ePUBee DRM Removal helps you remove DRM from ePUB as easy as ABC.

ePUBee also have PDF DRM Removal and Kindle DRM Removalhelp you remove DRM from PDF/AZW for free.

Sigil for Ubuntu 15.04

There are some repositories that seem to be mantaining Sigil at this moment for Ubuntu 15.04:

i2p: https://launchpad.net/~i2p.packages/+archive/ubuntu/i2p

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:i2p.packages/i2p
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sigil

xiota: https://launchpad.net/~xiota/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xiota/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sigil

mapreri: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri/+archive/ubuntu/sigil

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mapreri/sigil
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sigil

Though it is important to note that i2p.packages repository doesn’t contain only Sigil, and updating after adding it may upgrade other packages.

EPUB publishing

ton of different formats:

.aeh (used by Archos eReaders)
.lrx (used by Sony eReaders)
.ibooks (used by Apple eReaders)
.pkg (used by Newton eReaders)
.mobi (used by Amazon Kindle eReaders)
.epub (used by just about everyone else, including Barnes & Noble NOOK eReaders)

There are actually even more formats than those. That’s just a small sample. So, which one should you make?

Well, the only formats you need to create are EPUB and MOBI. Forget the others. EPUB is quickly becoming the industry standard and 90% of the eReaders on the market can open EPUB files. There is also a very simple conversion tool to change your EPUB into a MOBI. So, you really only need to make an EPUB, convert it to MOBI, and your book will be accessible on 99% of the eReaders out there, including NOOK and Kindle.

 

Build a digital book with EPUB

The open XML-based eBook format

Need to distribute documentation, create an eBook, or just archive your favorite blog posts? EPUB is an open specification for digital books based on familiar technologies like XML, CSS, and XHTML, and EPUB files can be read on portable e-ink devices, mobile phones, and desktop computers. This tutorial explains the EPUB format in detail, demonstrates EPUB validation using Java technology, and moves step-by-step through automating EPUB creation using DocBook and Python.

EPUB (short for electronic publication) is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Files have the extension .epub.

Continue reading “EPUB publishing”

Sigil

Sigil is a free, open source, multi-platform ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format. * It’s website is located here: http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ * It’s current code repository is located here: https://github.com/user-none/Sigil * Translations are located here: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/sigil/ * Support forums are located here:  http://www.mobileread.com/ Continue reading “Sigil”

How to delete books from Kindle

Posted by  on 12/11/2013 11:25:55 PM.

A significant advantage of eBook reading device is the capacity, even with a basic version of Kindle, you can hold thousands of eBooks with this handy size device. But every coin has two sides, after finishing and archiving more and more books, the storage space will become more and more disordered.

When you need to spend minutes to find the book you want to read, it is high time that you cleaned your ebook shelf up.

Identify Your Needs

Before cleaning your Kindle up, you should know what kind of deletion do you need.

1) You have downloaded too many books and finished most of them, now you want to make your Kindle looks clear and clean, delete those finished books from device but keep them in cloud.

• You are using Kindle device, like Kindle Touch, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire

• You are using Kindle app, like Kindle for Android, Kindle for iOS

2) You even don’t want to see those finished books in archive, want to delete them from Kindle Cloud.

• Delete books completely from your Kindle Cloud, delete books from Kindle archive

Click the links above you can jump to the part which can solve your problem.

Moon+ Reader, Google Play, Piracy Claims

How can I get more ebook OPDS download sites for the reader?

Here is a list in MobileRead Wiki: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/OPDS#Online_OPDS_Catalogs, you can also google “opds sites” for more.

 

February 3rd, 2013 by  

Continue reading “Moon+ Reader, Google Play, Piracy Claims”

Articles on Writing

Whenever you feel stuck with your article writing and are facing the typical writer’s block, you should go with the ‘brain dumping’ method where you write as fast as possible without thinking twice. Just write down everything that comes into your mind, and this will help the break writer’s block that you may be experiencing. As you write down this content, the spelling, grammar and punctuation will not even be considered during this process. You will be utterly astounded by all of the content that you come up with what you have put all of your article content into written format. Later on, you can use re-structure and proof read this article to make it presentable.

Continue reading “Articles on Writing”