|
Not too bad a deal if you can print the whole thing once using a pdf print driver. Unless it errors out, at least you can then be confident that technology changes are unlikely to steal your copy away from you or that you'll "run out of page views." Come on! But if I could print to unprotected pdf, I'd probably consider buying my books that way.
There may be problems though. On a college campus with lots of poor cash-strapped students with zero extra cash, odds are it would just get passed around to everyone instead of being purchased. And textbooks/reference books are my least favorite type of ebook. The interface is great for reading text front to back, but some books you just want to be able to flip through with your fingers and see lots of pages fast on real paper. Can't really get close to that unless you have a tablet pc.
Good thing is that if people like this kind of ebook, they'll really love "regular books"! And it might even save a few backs from early back pain!
|