Thread: Content Lord of the Rings Now Available! KINDLE, EPUB, PDF, LIT, and MOBI
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Old 04-20-2009, 08:54 PM   #138
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
With DRMed ebooks you're at the mercy of the person controlling the DRM servers. If they go out of business*, or decide to close your account*, or stop doing business with your retailer*, or shut down their DRM servers*, you're stuck. When your current ebook readers die, you'll lose access to your ebooks.

That's why I won't buy DRMed ebooks unless the DRM can be removed.

*I can provide examples of all these things having happened already, if you insist.
I have to disagree with your premise. You see, this makes the fifth time I've bought LOTR in the past 40 some years. Someone borrowed the first set and didn't return it. The second set got wet and torn. The Fellowship volume from the third set "disappeared." The fourth set is probably somewhere but I still want it on my reader enough to buy a fifth set.

Even pbooks are transitory. Permanence is only an illusion.
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