Hacks Kindle noob... purchased books can't open with Kindle - Page 2

fugazied · 10-13-2009, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Riptide

What a pain in the ass just to read a legally purchased book on the Kindle... I wonder how many sales retailers are losing by forcing people to jump through these hoops to buy their products, as opposed to just downloading torrents?

Yep this is where e-books go off the rails, you sometimes have to do more work to get the item you PAID for working, while the guy who got the pirated version doesn't have to do any of this. This is why many people who pay for books hate DRM, DRM barely affects piracy.

To be honest in the past I have bought a book (because I like to support this technology and the particular author), then grabbed the pirated version to avoid dealing with DRM. It's just easier.

Riptide · 10-13-2009, 08:30 PM

Right now, most of the books I'm getting have all been ones I already own in paperback (am working on replacing all my PB books). Now that I seem to be able to get books off of Amazon, I've picked up a bunch there this afternoon, and while I'm not even close to replacing the PB books, I've gotten a start on it (one complete series in ebooks

, and a decent start into two others)

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10-13-2009, 08:30 PM	#17
Riptide Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Northern Canada Device: Kindle	Right now, most of the books I'm getting have all been ones I already own in paperback (am working on replacing all my PB books). Now that I seem to be able to get books off of Amazon, I've picked up a bunch there this afternoon, and while I'm not even close to replacing the PB books, I've gotten a start on it (one complete series in ebooks , and a decent start into two others)

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