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Originally Posted by harryE123
I will personally never buy ANY ebook if the dont give me the print book as well, or vice versa. I can't understand how people are in the dark about this and our not vocal in their opposition to the stone ages of eboks we are living now much as we were for mp3s that were once far worse than cd quality and drm'ed. I can attribute it solely to the fact that by far the most people are ignorant and unintelligent, the fomer of course is excusable and it happens to everyone of us, the latter is something we got to stomach.
The big publishing house want to sell me content without the physical artifact? Are they joking? It should be only up to me to choose to decline the printed book and only accept the ebook, I should have the option.
What they want is to become another recording industry where they will be forcing us to pay triple and quadruple for vinyl, then cds, then mp3s essentially getting the same songs and artists...or the film/tv industries doing the same with vhs/dvd/blue rays. There is absolutely to rationale for not offering me the e-version of a printed book I am already purchasing, The cost to the them is subminimal, and since I am buying the content in print I should also have the choice of having the electronic version to use in my reader of choice.
I consider people buying ebooks solely as being taken advantage of. Firstly the way one relates to, overviews, reads and catalogs non physical books is like music very problematic. You got to have the physical book too, even if you never carry it around, it should be your choice.
To the rest who have spent their hard earned $$ buying expensive data encoded diodes passing off as books and have not been given the physical printed book too, allow me to say they are big, big time suckers, and it will take a long time to bring this situation with books into a fair level if they keep acting like suckers....
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As far as mp3's being far worse than cd's or for what it's worth LP's, that's not really true.
It just depends on what bitrate you encode it.
I'm sure you'll need to be a pro to hear the difference between an original recording on LP/tape/DAT/CD and a 160kbps mp3;let alone a 320kbps which technically exceeds/can exceed CD quality.
Then there's OGG which is far superior to MP3 (about 2 to 2,5 times as superior in quality/filesize).. Anyways, I think Ebooks are just better than pbooks.
Anyways, just wanted to show that it almost seems like I know something about mp3's, or so.... You know, just bluffing..
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