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Originally Posted by meaghm00
Just got through reading all these interesting comments. I love my ebooks but find it frustrating that many old classic mystery works (by authors like Michael Innes, Margery Allingham, Arthur Upfield etc.) are simply not available. I long for a system whereby we can acquire these titles "on demand". I guess I could try to accumulate them in paperback and scan them but I just can't imagine that electronic copies of them don't exist SOMEWHERE. Those are the books I would pay a little more for. New books I can just wait till the prices eventually fall. Oh, and I hate DRM.
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Yes, it's interesting to read complaints about pricing etc, when in Australia we can't buy a lot of books at ANY price. I would gladly pay for any of the old John le Carre spy books, Tom Holt, well, I won't list them or I'll be here all day. But no, due to what I consider to be very restrictive trading "deals" they are not available in Australia. It's no wonder people use illegal download sites, it is very tempting to just bypass the system. Our government rants on about "free trade" agreements with other countries but is not so keen to do the same here in Australia.