Thread: Amazon pulls MacMillan?
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Old 01-30-2010, 04:12 PM   #66
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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master View Post
Bear in mind that, as Cory Doctorow said, just because Amazon wants to charge only $9.99 doesn't mean they're your friend.
And his points, as far as they go, are quite valid. The thing he underplays is that it's trivial for me to strip the DRM from the books I buy from Amazon and read them on any device I want, format-shifting if necessary. When somebody comes up with a python script that will lower the price of every e-book I buy by 5 dollars the positions will be comparable.

Moot point for me anyway, as I'd already stopped buying books published by Macmillan, since much of their output isn't available in electronic form, in any format, at any price, and the quality of the little that is available tends to be atrocious. Along about the second or third time I ended up downloading a scanned copy from the darknet to fix the errors and fill in the missing parts of the book I'd just bought I wised up.
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