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Originally Posted by stonetools
Let me put it bluntly. Its damn easy to buy an ebook
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You're in the US of A, aren't you?
What about the rest of the world? I live in Austria, Europe. Last time I tried to buy an eBook, I had to sign up with three websites until I finally found one that would take my money.
One said "Sorry, we don't sell to your region", the other simply crashed (later confirmed by support that they don't sell to that region).
Then I finally found one that sold it. Of course, infested with DRM, because I, as paying customer, am obviously a lousy criminal who needs to be restricted.
Otherwise I might - heaven forbid - read the same book on TWO devices at the same time!!1111
Yeah, it's really easy.
BTW, need I mention that the spelling mistakes from the pBook were still in, and that the formatting was lousy, and absolutey unusable for an eReader? (As in, about a third of the display was used for empty margins, leaving perhaps 5-6 words per line.)
[edit]Almost forgot one (IMO) juicy detail about that mess - the site that crashed was actually the publishers website.
So, kudos for realizing republishing an old book as eBook might attract customers. It obviously did.
But preventing people from actually buying it then surely doesn't help.
I guess they still earned money because I bought a copy of the book, but probably less than if they'd have allowed me to buy it directly...