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Originally Posted by MacBeezle

All this "having the comfort that the proper sequence can be maintained without extra lists or research and that you can easily read the entire series without having to change files" sounds so typical american...."

Heh. The first such book I ever recall encountering (in print, by the way) was The Complete Works of Shakespeare, the second (also in print), was The Complete Sherlock Holmes. I suppose it's always possible that they were printed by a U.S. company (it was ~25 years ago, so I can't really check).

Originally Posted by MacBeezle

I don't know anyone caring about such things^^
We're more pragmatic in Germany I think.
Want a book - buy it - read it.
Want all books of a series - just buy all those books and read them^^

Don't get me wrong - I don't intend to offend anyone!
I just don't think this marketing model would work here.

Being a "American" who's German on my mother's side and half German, half British on my father's (hey, it's all Germanic! ), I can say that I'm not the least bit offended by other cultures not 'getting' the omnibus thing, nor that you've mentioned it.

Originally Posted by MacBeezle

So you found a way to crack the drm and just merge some books into one?

You could say that: we just use non-DRMed books (mostly Project Gutenberg texts -- all Public Domain) to make these things, much simpler that way, not to mention legal.