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Old 12-30-2007, 06:17 PM   #4
SteveB
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I'm a little puzzled what's stopping you from buying "unencumbered eBooks", Steve. If you like SF and Fantasy, Baen sell all their books DRM-free. For more general fiction, Fictionwise sell all their "Multiformat" books DRM-free.

Finally, to stretch the point a little, if you use Windows, you can buy any Microsoft Reader (LIT) book and trivially remove the DRM from it, ending up with a DRM-free book.

So what's stopping you from buying eBooks?
I hadn't realised that there were larger booksellers who sold DRM free. There are a couple of (real) books I've never been able to get so I'll check at a few places for them. They are long out of print so ita hard to say if there is much chance though.

Perhaps it might be a good idea to keep a sticky topic in the forum with a list of ebook sellers that sell DRM free books. The more people start supporting these perhaps the faster the idea will get general acceptance.

Steve
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