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I've just been villified (privately, not on the forum) because I refuse to stop buying Penguin books and my reason wasn't good enough. A few of you might already guess my reason - Roc is a Penguin imprint, and that's where Harry Dresden lives. It's a point I will not compromise on. I'm gonna read what I want to read. |
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But I've read pages and pages of outrage and anger at Penguin - while brushing off the whole idea of the breaking of the contract between Penguin (and what sounds like other publishers) and OD by OD - which gives Amazon an unfair business advantage. So - for me - the majority of this thread feels very lopsided. There's more to this situation than "Penguin hates libraries!" and that is what's bothering me. ETA: I bet you that if Apple had opened up library lending in this way - by getting the library loan shuttled through Apple's own servers and then emailing people to purchase books they borrowed first - MR would be in an UPROAR and the name calling and flaming would commence. Last edited by MrsJoseph; 02-16-2012 at 03:15 PM. Reason: Apple comments |
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And I didn't mean to come across as though I thought you expected others to make your decisions, I just sometimes worry that people forget WHY others make different decisions. It's so easy for these things to dissolve into chaos, as they are doing elsewhere on the forum. I should have stated things better. I think perhaps I'm feeling a little battered because reading has suddenly become a moral issue. And I'm not talking about the content, either. (I think by now, everyone has a pretty good idea of what I'm hiding on my Kindle...) |
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What? ...no mobi in the Penguin store?
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It's actually never occurred to me to buy ebooks directly from the publisher, when Google/Feedbooks/Amazon etc. provides one-stop shopping from all the publishers.
In any case, epub-only doesn't bother me. I've switched to buying mostly in epub format anyway--I find that epubs convert to mobi better than the other way around, and I've yet to find one I can't strip the DRM out of. On the other hand, I am stuck with a few AZW files that I can't do a d**n thing with. |
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I don't even try to keep up with the posts. It boggles the mind. I just drop in for interesting looking threads and challenges. March's challenge looks swweeet!
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