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Originally Posted by JSWolf
DRM-Free should have been a big red flag. Transworld would never have published DRM-Free. Second red flag should have been that it is in the KLL. That would never have happened.
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I don't see how I would know whether a book has DRM (I just switched to a Kindle recently), even looking at one that I'm sure does not (a Baen book). And to be honest, I wouldn't check regardless - every book I buy gets added to Calibre with a little help from Alf. And I wouldn't pretend to know the stance of every author/publisher/rights holder on the Lending Library.
I'm all for sticking with non-pirated books (and I'll avoid these now that I know they're pirated)....but isn't the due diligence really the responsibility of the seller and rights holder? If I were Todd McCaffrey and I was receiving some (probably pretty decent) income from these books, I think I'd spend an hour a month or so checking the major stores for pirated copies. It's not worth checking the torrents - it'd be too time consuming. But Amazon customers are spending money, and it's not reasonable to expect the average consumer to be able to identify a pirated copy.
(Maybe it would be useful to have a 'books we know are pirated' thread?)