That ebook you thought you bought ...

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OldBloke

April 04, 2019, 01:46:32 PM
"War without end. Well, what was history if not that? And how would having the stars change anything?" - James S. A. Corey

TeaLeaf

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April 04, 2019, 02:42:33 PM
I have to say that is why 99.99% of all ebooks I own I have in open format, which is why I never ended up with an Amazon ebook.  Staying open format (via a Kobo in my case) has to date only bitten me in the rear once, where a series I was reading was open format for books 1-4, then Amazon (new non-convertible format) only for books 5 & 6, then open format again for books 7-9.   The author was most apologetic on his website, but contracts are contracts and he screwed up.

You would have thought after all the well-publicised and early Apple music cases that people would have learnt about this.
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smilodon

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April 04, 2019, 04:14:46 PM
Yep I'm very wary of closed source ebooks. I do get that authors would probably not want to release their work onto a platform that had no DRM at all but when I bought a proper book at least I owned the paper it was printed on.



I'm sure Microsoft Ebooks Stores four customers won't be at all happy. :norty:
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