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> Once you take away the D.R.M. But that's the thing - nobody who has copyright to books is willing to take away the DRM. In essence, DRM is what distinguishes
by bediger4000 4y ago
> Once you take away the D.R.M.
But that's the thing - nobody who has copyright to books is willing to take away the DRM. In essence, DRM is what distinguishes an Ebook from a random file with a .pdf suffix.
- PaulHoule 4y agoI can download files of conference proceedings and other academic books from Springer-Verlag as PDF from my university library. I don’t think O’Reilly does it any more but they used to sell PDF files of their books before they got into the cable TV model with Safari. My uni also gets books from HTML based web sites that are usually a terribly experience (click… click… click… click…) much worse than “pdf+drm” but there are some HTML based e-book formats like EPUB that I think are ok.