Nintendo To Start Publishing Ebooks On the DS 216
Miracle Jones writes "Nintendo is going to start publishing ebooks for the DS in conjunction with HarperCollins. The first cartridge will go on sale December 26th in the UK, will cost around 30 dollars, and will feature 100 classic books — stuff like Charles Dickens and Jane Austen."
DRM? (Score:5, Funny)
Dickens and Austen, eh? So what sort of DRM is Nintendo going to use to "protect" this "IP"?
Re:DRM? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:finally! (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, I can see it now:
Call me Ishmael
*Turn Page*
Selection (Score:5, Funny)
I know I was just clamoring to get my my hands on the Jane Austin books when I was a kid. If only there was a way to get it digitally, and in a form where I could read it while making people think I was playing video games! Oh, that would have been too much to ask.
Re:DRM? (Score:5, Funny)
No need. They'll just get Fagin to "send the boys round" if they catch you doing anything untoward.
The 26th is days too late (Score:2, Funny)
to buy a most hated Christmas Present. Can you imagine a kid getting this, "Yay, a new DS game" "Boo, it's just books."
all they need is some pretty artwork (Score:5, Funny)
and it'll be like a DS RPG, but with better stories and fewer boss battles.
Re:DRM? (Score:5, Funny)
UK? Text in English? (Score:4, Funny)
Damn! Sure I can buy it on Ebay, but I speak American.
Re:finally! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DRM? (Score:4, Funny)
But it gave him new inspiration to think up stories about Scrooge. He didn't pay for the inspiration that the pirates gave him, so they called it even.
Bert
Re:DRM? (Score:3, Funny)
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right
Re:DRM? (Score:3, Funny)
To whomever modded this "Offtopic": What the Dickens is the matter with you?
Yet another illiterate modder who can't even be bothered to use google.
Re:DRM? (Score:5, Funny)
Dickens maybe, Austen though? Turn on your TV, change channel to Lifetime, watch it for whatever the equivalent of 50000000 pages is, replacing cars with chariots, and everything else with tea, poof instant Jane Austen.
I personally can't stand either of them. Dickens basically wrote the same book 40 times, while Austen is about as readable as Danielle Steele, but gets credit for being a woman writing books when women didn't right books, which is quite an accomplishment even if said books are about banal people being banal (with tea).
Re:DRM? (Score:3, Funny)
You missed Jane Austen's BEN HUR?
Re:all they need is some pretty artwork (Score:3, Funny)
*BAM* Objection!