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Old 04-01-2010, 01:48 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by booklvr52 View Post
Thanks for the info....have you (or anyone) heard of Good e-Reader....they provide unlimited downloads for a flat monthly fee of around $10...
Looks like an interesting service, but I can't find any details on what books they have available, nor what filetypes. (They say they support everything, which is pretty much a meaningless claim.) They don't say whether they require DRM registrations, but they'd have to, to offer the books they show.

The only way I can think they'd be able to offer the books they depict is if someone buys them, strips the DRM, and "loans" them out through their subscription program--which is rather drastically illegal.

They could, presumably, re-DRM them with their own DRM, to only allow them to be used for a limited time, and loan them out like library ebooks, only with more flexibility about device compatibility. I think that's fairly unlikely.

Of course, it's possible that they don't actually offer the titles they show, and only have a few promo-freebie popular book titles, and a whole bunch of Gutenberg books.
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