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Originally Posted by Difflugia
I'm a little late to the party, but eBooks.com offers ADE downloads in PDF when the publisher makes one available. That's becoming more rare with new books and publishers are even removing the PDF option on some older ones, but there are still a number of books with a PDF option. You can even download both formats with the same purchase.
If you go that route, eBooks.com enforces a max number of downloads that is set by the publisher and not disclosed anywhere. It's usually five, but it's occasionally three or (fortunately rarely) even one. Second, the available formats can change. I have books that had PDF available when I bought them, but don't any longer. Third, eBooks.com tends to have higher prices on average (often MSRP for print versions) and seems to be included in publisher sales less often. I usually check them, though, and have been pleasantly surprised a few times.
The advanced search allows you to select format ("PDF" means a PDF with ADE DRM). A book with both PDF and epub available will have a line below the description that says, "Read online, or download in secure PDF or secure EPUB format." |
Fantastic, thanks very much! I didn't know about ebooks.com, and I've already found some "print replica" pdfs for books that don't seem to be available anywhere else, including from the original publisher. For example, Wiley does not seem to offer any of the "X for Dummies" books that I'm interested in as pdfs anymore, but ebooks.com still has a great many. I have edited my summary of resources above to include ebooks.com.