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Old 01-22-2011, 09:04 AM   #1
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Hi All,

Don't know if this can be of use to others, but I just noticed that books from University of Chicago Press, which I thought were only available in pdf format (and with DRM to boost, yuck), are available in ePub (unfortunately also with DRM, yuck) at Kobo. I don't know if they are geo-restricted but they are available for France at any rate.

I have my eyes on Loving Little Egypt, a book I heard about a few months ago, and I was very excited when I found it was offered as a free download, and very disappointed when it turned out it was in pdf format. I'm delighted to see it's now available in ePub, though I haven't made up my mind yet whether to buy it. I read a few pages of the pdf version and the writing looks OK, and the story seems intriguing.
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UC Press offers a freebie every month, and if you sign up for one, they'll send you a monthly e-mail when a new freebie appears. I use the IOS Bluefire app to read mine, but here's a link in case anyone wants more info for other devices/formats:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/index.html

(That page includes a link to the monthly freebie.)
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Old 01-22-2011, 04:40 PM   #3
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UC Press offers a freebie every month, and if you sign up for one, they'll send you a monthly e-mail when a new freebie appears. I use the IOS Bluefire app to read mine, but here's a link in case anyone wants more info for other devices/formats:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/index.html

(That page includes a link to the monthly freebie.)
That's right, but the freebies are in pdf format with DRM (unless that has changed?) so you will need Adobe Digital Edition to at least activate it first, before removing the DRM to read it with another software. Or did I miss something?
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That's right, but the freebies are in pdf format with DRM (unless that has changed?) so you will need Adobe Digital Edition to at least activate it first, before removing the DRM to read it with another software. Or did I miss something?
I didn't check the freebies format, because I read 'em via ADE on iPad. I pasted the link so people can check for themselves.
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The freebie is a pdf. It does not convert well into epub.
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