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I would agree, but somehow ebooks cost same or more than paperback books... and they also come full of DRM. Not to mention licensing nightmares - i wanted to b
by Xelbair 7y ago
I would agree, but somehow ebooks cost same or more than paperback books... and they also come full of DRM.
Not to mention licensing nightmares - i wanted to buy one ebook in english.. and i couldn't because someone else had rights to distribution in UK, so i couldn't order US ebook as i was from europe. To make matters worse - UK publisher/rightholder/whatever had no plans to even release an ebook.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoFormat-shifting is allowed in USA copyright law, iTunes even facilitates it (it's not allowed in UK, it was briefly allowed). So, presumably a company could format-shift a copyrighted book too. Then customers could choose paper weight, cover style, binding type, etc., or just have an ebook with no DRM?
- beatgammit 7y agoThis is it for me. If I'm going to buy a book, I'm not going to buy DRM, so my choices end up being paperback or hardcover. I prefer to read paperback because it's more portable, so that's what I end up buying. If ebooks without DRM were available, I'd probably buy a lot of them. However, DRM drastically reduces the value of an ebook for me, so they'll have to drastically reduce the price of an ebook for me to buy (or maybe have a reasonable rental option). Until then, I'll buy paperbacks and restrict my ebook reading to my library and copyright-free titles.
- ZoomZoomZoom 7y agoThis is only tangential to the matter of media, it's a problem of distribution. In such case one could buy a paperback and make an ebook, or, you know, ask the web to "produce" you one. I would go one step further and recommend this method even if an ebook is available but DRM'ed.