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To: RocketMan who wrote (2366)	3/16/2000 11:55:00 PM
From: LBstocks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6516

TV Guide Sees Expansion For Betting Through TVG Network Dow Jones News Service ~ March 16, 2000 ~ 10:55 pm EST By Tom Locke VAIL, Colo. (Dow Jones)--TV Guide Inc. (TVGIA) plans to have Television Games Network, its horse racing network, legally available for interactive wagering in eight to nine states by the end of the year, said Chief Financial Officer Craig Waggy Thursday. If Kentucky is any indication, the network could have a good future. Results in the home state of Churchill Downs showed that for those households wagering through the network, an average of $1,366 was wagered per month per household, said Waggy in a presentation at the Janco Partners Institutional Investor Conference in Vail. With Television Games Network, known as TVG, receiving 5.5% of the amount wagered, that translated to $75.13 per household per month. Plus TVG received an average of $12.50 a month in transaction fees, for a total of $87.63 a month per household going to TVG. Waggy warned that Kentucky is probably not a typical market for horse-race gambling. Even so, if the betting is $650 per month per wagering household, TVG figures it can break even with 200,000 wagering households, according to a Feb. 16 report by Janco Partners analyst Stacy Forbes. Waggy sees TVG as a boost for the horse racing industry. Kentucky, Oregon and Maryland already allow interactive wagering through the network, and the programming is becoming more widely distributed. It is available to 1.9 million C-band (big-dish satellite) subscribers, and in November TVG signed an affiliation agreement with EchoStar Corp.'s (DISH) direct broadcast satellite network that makes the programming available to all of EchoStar's 3 million subscribers, Forbes said in her report. Plus TVG has signed an affiliation agreement with a programming subsidiary of AT&T Corp. (T) that could potentially cover 18 million subscribers, she said. In October, Gemstar International Group (GMST), of Pasadena, Calif., and TV Guide, of Tulsa, Okla., announced that Gemstar had agreed to buy TV Guide for $ 7.7 billion in stock. Shareholders of the companies vote Friday, March 17, on the deal. -By Tom Locke; Dow Jones Newswires; 303-293-9294 (END) DOW JONES NEWS 03-16-00 10:55 PM

To: RocketMan who wrote (2366)	3/17/2000 10:03:00 AM
From: arjan bok	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6516

Before downloading any tittles to your rocketbook you need to register at I believe it is the Nuvomedia website where you will get a unique ID and password. When you buy a book at B&N or Powellbooks.com<...better They will want you to register with your ID and password. After paying for your book they will e-mail you a url where you can download the book that is coded to work only with your Rocket e book. When you tried to download the book you didn't have a code so B&N could not encode a book for you. I guess they do this so that we can not "share" our books with friends that own other rocketbooks. FWIW powellbooks.com still has the Steven King book available for free at powells.com Arjan Bok

To: RocketMan who wrote (2366)	3/17/2000 10:39:00 AM
From: James Sinclair	Respond to of 6516

I can understand that for security reasons they would not want to allow download of paid editions, but this was supposed to be a free one-time deal to generate interest. Someone should have been able to download it to the free e-rocket reader, at least RocketMan, When GMST initially bought NuvoMedia, I did a little research into their intellectual property and this scheme of tieing a downloaded book to a particular reader was a key feature. Its probably so embedded in the workings of the book and the format of the files that it can't be turned off. Probably just as well, because in a few months there will be some teenage hacker trying to figure out how to break the scheme like they did with DVD encryption.