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Originally Posted by Kris777

It is not bullshit for publishers who trying to have the same profit from eBooks that they have from paper books.
Users can't buy new bestsellers on http://www.baen.com/ unfortunately
but these DRMed ebooks available on http://www.mobipocket.com or http://www.fictionwise.com/ websites...

Hunh?!? Try *again*! Just about *every* newly released hc and mmpb offered by Baen is offered *also* (same month of release) as an ebook through Webscriptions.

So if BAEN can do this, there is absolutely NO reason other publishers can't. And you're talking to a person who buys both dead-tree *and* ebook versions of the BAEN releases. Heck, on books from authors I *really* like, I've been known to buy the (tripled-price) Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) versions *before* the release of the dead-tree, and then turn around and buy both the dead-tree and ebook versions. Plenty of other BAEN customers do the same.

Given that this can and does work for BAEN, I seriously doubt it cannot be made to work for other publishers.

Derek