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Originally Posted by HarryT
If you read the article, it appears that the "blame" is not one-sided. The reason the books were pulled from BoB is that BoB did not implement a mechanism to restrict the sale of certain books according to the location of the customer, as the publisher required. This is a perfectly reasonable requirement - many authors have single-country distribution deals with particular publishers.
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This is not a reasonable requirement in an international web based distribution system. I for one will not buy Mobipocket format again. I am able to buy lit format and remove DRM and this will be the track I take from here in. LIT format with DRM removed is working very well on BeBook with the latest firmware, therefore this will be my preferred purchase now.
Up until now I have not been bothered by DRM but with the latest game playing in the industry I am no longer willing to abide by the game playing of these publishers.
I purchase a high number of e-books and therefore put a large amount of money into this industry (approximate 6 - 12 books per month). I find it ridiculous that I can buy an audio version of a book, a print version, but not able to buy an e-book format.
I live in a country where it is legal to format shift files to enable fair usage, therefore I will take this option.
Karen