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Originally Posted by mosteo
This DRM thing is maddening. I'm just refraining from purchasing the new Dan Simmons book (Drood) because I can't find it DRM-free, and hardcover editions online are (besides shipping) only slightly more expensive than the DRM-ed ebooks I have found (mobipocket or sonyconnect).
I'm Spanish, so I would, ideally, purchase now the eBook (I can barely restrain, I'm sure I'll love this book), read it in English (which I do not master outside my technical field, so I miss lots of subtleties), and then the hardcover when it comes out translated here. I don't want to have both hardcover, so this way they're losing one sale and I'm losing my sanity 
(BTW bigmoney: I soooo much liked the Hyperion cantos. I envy you if it's your first reading.) |
Yes it's my first read, I just started (page 100 or so) but it looks very promising..I love this kind of books where the author develops a whole universe. I've read zillions of sci-fi books but for some reason I've never had the chance to read this classic as well as Revelation Space. Will fix that now
Regarding DRM, my position so far (considering that I cannot put paper books in my apartment, all shelves and boxes etc are full of books) is to buy them and run one of those programs that remove DRM, like mobiDeDrm.py. And on top of that I bug the stores from time to time. It worked with music (Amazon and now iTunes are DRM-free, and they are not losing buyers), so one day I am sure that DRM will die for ebooks as well, it's just a question of
when.