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Originally Posted by Alfy
As for the format, when has any publisher in any media gone for a format as easy to use as the one used for pirated copies? DRMed mp3? DRMed ePub? This is not an unusual trend, however much I dislike it. My biggest beef for now is the complete absence of user owned backups on actual computers, something at was never done for music or ebooks. I am not talking about subscription music here, I mean the equivalent of actually not having any copy of an mp3 but on your iPad. It is incredible these publishers really expect us to be happy leaving our copies on the cloud...
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Yes, they are the most paranoid, by far, which is bizarre. Given as has been mentioned you can pretty much get anything for free fairly soon after they come out. Plus also close to any comic ever, at least in English, anyway. So the commercial offerings are far, far inferior in usability and availability. Except for the usability on tiny phones I suppose where they have an optimised panel by panel viewer thing.
And bookstore chain crashes will potentially chop heaps of sales off their trade paperback numbers.