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Originally Posted by Katsunami
And HOW would one want to achieve this?
You select something to buy, you pay, you're done. Download the game, install, play.
Publishers should be the first ones to take a page out of GOG.com's book.
Diesel E-Books has a sale running now, and a 30% promo code. I've checked some Forgotten Realms fantasy books I wanted to read. As this is just low-brow quick-read fantasy (but still fun, of course), I don't want to spend a lot of money on it. I've calculated that, between the sale and the 30% promo code, I can have a bunch of Forgotten Realms books for $2.35 a piece. That's LESS than the cost of a beer in my local pub. I don't even think about pirating the books, because most of the FR books I want are old (80's, early 90's), so the pirated versions are probably bad OCR-ed crappy versions.
It's cheap ($2.35 is only €1.85: If I buy the paperback in the Netherlands, it'd cost me €7.95), quick and easy, and the stuff is (probably) of good quality. If they'd refrain from using DRM, I'd be perfect.
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If you are looking for DRM-free ebooks that are similar in tone to the Forgotten Realms/D&D material, you might want to check out the Pathfinder novels and short stories by Paizo Publishing. All DRM free and reasonably priced.
I love the TSR stuff (I'm old enough to remember TSR, so D&D and all of its subworlds will always be "TSR" to me even though they are now just a subdivision of Hasbro).
And I agree, I want to just log in, buy my books, download them and be on my way...
There are still lots of great chocies: some Kobo stuff, Smashwords, Solaris, Robot Trading Company, WildSide, BookViewCafe, Weightlessbooks, Black Library, Jack Vance's official site...I've even seen a few authors like Tobias Buckell starting to offer direct and easy downloads through Gumroad. There are lots of great alternatives worth supporting out there.