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My sister has NEVER purchased a book that financially benefited the author. All she does is buy used books. Used books, on average, can be read and given to others for 15-25 reads. I want ebooks (and audiobooks) without DRM so that I can share them among family or even just my personal devices and use whatever I want at the time I want to read now as well as 10 years from now. Some of us have already been burned by publishers going out of business and now cannot access ebooks LEGALLY purchased. Not everybody gets notified that their publisher is going offline so that they have the time to download their stuff. You might be offline due to illness, connection issues, family issues, or simply unable to download. What happens when your device dies. How do you now get access to that stuff you bought especially if the devices available in the walled garden don't meet your specific needs.
Finally, some of what I've purchased is now unavailable to download so that I can print out the pattern to knit the pattern or cook the recipe.
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