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Originally Posted by Nate the great
And this brings me to the email I received today. In order to promote John Hart's latest work, St Martin's Press is giving away his first novel as an ebook. I thought this was great, then I learned that it will _only_ be available as a PDF. And you can _only_ download it after giving your mailing address, email address, and agree to the fact that they can send you promotional material (aka spam) in the future. Why do they need my email address? They need my mailing address?!? For an ebook? In what universe does giving away an ebook require a mailing address? The only type of person I know that asks for that much information is a spammer. Okay, I know they're not spammers. But can we really be certain of that?
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This wont solve the problem of it being in PDF but........
Since they have your email anyway, why not just give a bogus mailing address if you want the book? Get the book, no spam...half the problem solved.
Cheers,
PKFFW