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by rollover 6y ago
If you delete an account, the account must be gone. No login possible anymore. Otherwise it's not deletion.
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by rollover 6y ago
This company is a disaster. They are even too stupid to understand the concept of account deletion. "How to delete your Gumroad account: From your Advanced Settings page, scroll to the bottom of the page, then click Delete your Gumroad
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by rollover 7y ago
Are there any books of this kind for modern languages?
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by rollover 9y ago
It turns away more potential customers. The DRM has helped absolutely nothing to protect against copying. The book is already out there on the net as a now "DRM-free" PDF. It's a shame that illegally downloading it is current
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by rollover 9y ago
You can buy them on Ebooks.com http://about.ebooks.com/drm-free-oreilly-ebooks-available-eb...
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by rollover 9y ago
They don't protect anything. Probably 90% of your catalog is out there on the net and findable with a bit of googling. In the end it's just a bad business decision. You scare away potential customers and your stuff gets pirated an
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by rollover 9y ago
The watermarking is the sole reason I don't buy ebooks from PragProg.
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by rollover 9y ago
A digital watermark is automatically inserted customer information into a purchased product to restrict it's usage only to the buyer of that product. To me that's exactly like Digital Rights (Restrictions) Management. Calling some
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by rollover 10y ago
Watermarking puts the liability (maybe not legally) on the customer to protect the files from any third party access because there's always the risk that someone who gains access to them puts the files on the net with your name/em
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by rollover 10y ago
O'Reilly, NoStarch, Packt and Leanpub books are fine since they're completely clean. But books from Pragmatic Programmers, Manning, Apress, Addison Wesley, Pearson and Sams are watermarked which I consider just as bad as DRM. I ne
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by rollover 10y ago
Dammit, the epub format is such a disgrace for books, especially for those containing code snippets. I've yet to encounter a book that doesn't suffer from being published as epub. I prefer a well formatted pdf that just looks like
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by rollover 11y ago
Test-Driven Development with Python by Harry Percival is kind of a Python/Django equivalent to the Ruby/Rails Tutorial. http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754