Thread: STUDY SHOWS: Ditching DRM could reduce piracy, prices
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Old 10-20-2011, 01:40 PM   #507
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Originally Posted by Harmon View Post
Well, here's a site that says it will scan it for you.

http://1dollarscan.com/

I haven't dug into it, but from what I gather, the condition is that they then destroy the pbook you send to be scanned.

Here's their explanation, which - although I haven't researched it - could well hold water, legally:
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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak View Post
Try this link. They want money for it, but it looks like a valid ebook to me.
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Interesting that it didn't turn up on Inkmesh. So now I have to remember to do a separate Google books search...
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Inkmesh is too complicated and advanced for an unsophisticated Typical User like me.

Google sent me straight to Google Books, probably because I included "ebook" in the search.
Wow. This is tempting...

The only place I've been really leery of buying books from is Google. I can hardly ever tell what format their books are in. Is this epub, mobi, .PDF, cloud reading only, html?
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