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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
It is their right, as owners, to decide whether or not to make it available as a digital books.
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However, "Information wants to be free."
Or at least available in readable form. I made a genuine effort over some weeks to find a copy in large enough font to read with ordinary 175 resolution reading glasses, and I couldn't. The paperback is some
1075 pages with miniscule type. The hardbacks are unavailable in stores as far as I've found so far, and I've looked.
One of the most important features of the eBooks is that readers not comfortable with 6-point type (and surely that's everybody?) can make the type as large as they want.
Keeping large but popular books that don't transition well to paperbacks off the eBook market --- like "The Stand" or "Atlas Shrugged" --- is probably going to lead to the publishers losing control of these properties, and I for one have no sympathy at all for them if that's the case.