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Check out the guarantee on our own wee house's bookstore, Craig. It says this:
A PROMISE TO OUR EBOOK BUYERS
Should you buy a BeWrite Books ebook from a third party-retailer rather than from our own site, you might find (through no fault or desire on our part) that it is locked by store-imposed Digital Rights Management (DRM) software. We feel this restricts your legitimate owner's rights. So if you ever encounter this problem, simply let us know and we will freely send you the DRM-free version of that title in the format of your choice (evidence of original purchase would help us identify the errant stores, but isn't strictly necessary for this offer to be fulfilled). BeWrite Books and its authors want you to be able to share our ebooks with friends and family as you might share our paperbacks. We want you to be able to easily convert ebooks to any format you like, to read them on whichever device you like, wherever you like, whenever you like. We trust you not to make a business of it, but to fairly use a BB ebook as you would a BB treebook. BB reckons you own the ebook you bought – you've not merely licensed it with strings attached. DRM is not only an inconvenience to you but a downright insult. We'll put it right. That's a promise. And those who know us will attest to the fact that BB never breaks its promises.
Tony Szmuk (Publisher) & Neil Marr (Editor in Chief)
I reckon that puts it pretty simply and honestly. We are even considering this paragraph for our conditions page on all BeWrite Books ebook titles (120 in 350 ebook editions at any given time) so that nobody's ever taken by surprise. Cheers. Neil
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