How long before we see a LIMIT on the number of reads we are "allowed"

[CazMar]

Originally Posted by Worldwalker

I've seen efficiency consultants defined as people who steal your watch and tell you the time. Given what I've seen of the breed, I'll believe it.

I suspect this is very much the case - and it's often a result of the "make work" approach of a lot of companies, i.e. if you send a lot of time having meetings and bringing in consultants and crack-pot schemes it looks as though you are really earning that fat salary, doesn't it?
Booksellers lived with 2nd hand sales for centuries, surely the savings on printing costs for ebooks would cover the loss from some piracy.

[mr ploppy]

Originally Posted by Worldwalker

I've seen efficiency consultants defined as people who steal your watch and tell you the time. Given what I've seen of the breed, I'll believe it.

12 years ago I used to work back-office at a business consultants, you wouldn't believe the guff they used to come out with to justify their £1,000 per day fee. Most of it was just recycled from the last business they worked for, just a few words changed to make it seem more personal.

[mr ploppy]

Originally Posted by CazMar

Booksellers lived with 2nd hand sales for centuries, surely the savings on printing costs for ebooks would cover the loss from some piracy.

The lack of any secondary market for ebooks will more than compensate for the small minority of people who download pirate books, and writers have just as much to gain from piracy as they do from second hand paperbacks. Publishers I couldn't care less about.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by HarryT

What proportion of your books do you read more than once? With me, the figure is very low. I have a few old favourites, that I read over and over, but the overwhelming majority of books I'll never read again.

This.

But still. I hate corporate greed.

[Barty]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Yes it's perfectly safe.
As long as there is no repeat of the 1984 fiasco -- and eReader technology and DRM schemes never change -- and your Kindle (and Amazon) lasts forever and you never have the desire to move your library to a different platform... it's perfectly safe.

I always strip the DRM as soon as I buy a book (though I stick mostly to free classics). It just gives me a warm feeling. Besides, all it takes is a drag n drop into calibre, and I get a catalog of my books to boot!

[Gwen Morse]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

Well, I've always thought I'd just do something about it when the time comes since for the moment, I can't imagine reading on anything else but a kindle. Still, might be better to be safe than sorry...But after the DRM is stripped, I'd have to sideload the book now, yes?

Yeah, you'd sideload it using Calibre, which you already mentioned using in another post, and a USB cable. Or, you could email it to yourself using your free.kindle.com email address. I often do that when I'm too lazy to walk across the house to pick up the kindle.

I'd suggest removing the DRM sooner rather than later. When I first bought my kindle, it was just a matter of finding the PID of your device to remove the DRM. Then Amazon decided it was worth making it a bit harder and there were a rough few months while Smart Folks figured out how to get around the updated DRM.

There's always a chance they could change something again....

[snipenekkid]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

Well, I've always thought I'd just do something about it when the time comes since for the moment, I can't imagine reading on anything else but a kindle. Still, might be better to be safe than sorry...But after the DRM is stripped, I'd have to sideload the book now, yes?

right and let me be the first to suggest you setup your files the way you want then import into Calibre. I put off really organizing my ebook files and ended up with a royal rats nest of files. I am near to done organizing them on my HDD. Once that is done I am adding all of them to Calibre, stripping the DRM with the plug-ins then, saving those files locally and sending the rest to my Dropbox account.