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I must say I'm surprised. I expected the Justice Department to derail this move for at least another year. And they may, yet. I'm cautiously optimistic. I hope Google has been watching Amazon and will be smart enough to learn from Amazon's mistakes. I don't care how Big Brother Google wants to get, as long as they have the books I want for sale at a reasonable price. For some of them, I dont' even care about reasonable price..how much is my time worth? If I'm going to spend 12 hours scanning ONE book, and another who knows how long proofreading it, then I might be willing to pay a higher price for the convenience of being able to purchase it at all.
I do have some concerns: I don't want to have to read the material online, I want it downloadable in a format my EZ Reader can handle, or I can format shift. I don't want a "new" even more restrictive DRM scheme. And I don't want to be locked into ONE way to access those books.
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