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Originally Posted by Ron.
They need to lower prices 20.99 for an ebook is nuts, they need to drop the DRM, they need to improve quality ( a ebook full of scan errors should be an embarrassment to them) The darknet copy's are often better quality then the ones they sell. They need to do something about the georestrictions. In another thread a kindle user wanted a book, it's avaliable in the US kindle store, but not the UK kindle store. He had to buy the book from a different store in epub format and has to now remove the DRM and convert it.
They need to make it easier to buy books then to pirate them and they are doing the exact opposite. They will learn just like the music industry did, They will lose business trying to control the market rather then adapting to and catering to it and they will use piracy as the excuse for there failed business model. Give them a decade they will figure it out...
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For god's sake it's
THAN not "then" when you want to make a comparison ...
Anyways the reason why I got them on the darknet is exactly because of the annoying restrictions and geographical unavailability to which you add the errors that litter most ebooks. The first time I tried to buy an ebook, the "sorry this product is available in the USA and Canada only" was a shock and that was the moment I began looking around the darknet ... (is torrent part of the darknet ?)
The worst is to know that officially most ebooks I want to have I cannot buy. For example, The Lord of the Rings ebook is unavailable in English where I live. I am simply not legally allowed to buy it (and thus to read it), can you believe that ? Who the hell do they think they are to tell me I cannot read a certain book in English. Actually it's not even available in my language though I'm sure it will be eventually but I cannot read it in English, they tell ME I cannot read it in English. Well ladies and gentlemen of the publishing industry, guess what ? you don't control my life at least not to that extent.