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I tried to pay using my paypal account when I got bounced yesterday. I am unaware of any local supplier of e books. The net result of all the irritation is I went to Baen and downloaded Eric Flints 1632 for free. No money left my account and I will not renew my club memebership with Fictionwise. Its not like I blame them or wish to punish them but it is no longer worth it for me.
The complexities around formats and drm are also becoming more onerous with silly things like mobi not allowing any other drm system on a machine that they license to. I was thinking of purchasing a new 5 inch reader such as the Opus but could not be bothered at the moment. I will look at it again once some of these issues are resolved.
I think a lot of the current complexities surrounding e books are caused by various vested interests attempting to carve out a piece of the market for them selves but all that is happening is that the market is being made an unpleasant place to be.
For now I vote with my feet and will support Baen and the books available on this site. I will try to follow the tutorials on this site and have a go at formatting freee books and posting them here. I will not purchase another reader and will avoid all books with drm. I could not be bothered to learn to remove drm and have no desire to get books illegally. All I want is to indulge a quiet and harmless hobby, ie reading. I dont have the time to become an expert in all these esoteric issues. I have photography for that.
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