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Originally Posted by p3aul
I'm tired of the shortcommings of these so called forum editors.
I'm tired of this anyway. I started out by asking a polite question about writing a book with copy-protection and got lambasted by a bunch of fanatics with faulty logic and impossible conclusions. National and international commerce and law dictate wether there will be DRM or not DRM, not some people with axes to grind on a forum somewhere. I prefer DRM. You don't. Just go your happy and blissfull way and I will go mine. The only conclusion one can draw from all this is that a handful of people on mobileread forums won't buy DRM books. Most will. so keep Mobileread forums to your selves. I can do without it!  |
You sound like my father when he was alive, very opinionated and unable to have an open mind. I am sorry for you that you will not even look into any suggestions these kind people have given you.
So your
wife is writing the book but it's
your baby?
Talk to those authors that were mentioned, you have the links to them in this thread. These are NOT fly-by-night-and-first-timer-or-just-beginning-authors, they are respected in their field over years and years of time and one was on the panel to choose the best of the best for the year in their field.
I buy my ebooks, thank you very much in ONLY DRM-free, and I do not take being called a thief very well. None of us do and yet you have persisted in saying so. There are legal torrents and illegal ones. I choose the legal ones. And who gave you the right to say you were older than me anyway? I am retired and loving it! (Do you personally remember when gas was only 12 cents a gallon?)
The reason I have chosen to have only DRM free books to buy is simple.
1. When I first bought an eBook, it was with Adobe Ebook, when my computer crashed, I couldn't down it again, and my 'permissions' were gone. I lost a book that I had
just downloaded and hadn't even opened yet!
2. When I tried mobipocket and/or ereader, the first time the reader software(s) had to be updated, the PID numbers changed and I lost all my books until I could a) redownload them with the proper PID, or 2) rebuy something I already owned, which I refused to do.
3. I have not yet found new reader software for some formats that will work on an older PPC operating system with these newer ebooks. It is only 10 years old, and from the time that you were born, most things were really made to last a long time, not like today. Wouldn't you at least agree with that statement?
Since I know that you will not read the entire posting, let me say this: With your attitude about being like my late father, I wish you well in finding a forum that agrees with you, as that is what you are looking for, not to have an open discussion and possibly learn something new.