Does anyone know where I can buy enderverse-ebooks that actually work? All DRM-infested ebooks are out of the question, since they can't be converted to any format my current (and future) readers support.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Generally, it's not possible to buy ebooks that aren't crippled to near-uselessness.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
An odd exception is RPG ebooks from places like RPGNow, which tend to be DRM-free PDFs. It's kind of weird, actually.
Posted by Ronin (Member # 1749) on :
The author mentions that "every" DRM format for ebooks was broken except Sony's. This means that while you may not have a choice about buying non-drm'd stuff you can either pirate it (and buy a copy of course!) or buy a copy in a format that has been cracked so that you can make it into a useable format.
I'm wonder if you just caught the irony of DRM. People with the knowledge to hack, crack or steal don't have to ever interface with DRM (or at most it's a slight annoyance) whereas people that actually BUY the damn thing are subject to censure.
There is also an excellent comic on the subject: http://xkcd.com/488/ Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
quote:I'm wonder if you just caught the irony of DRM. People with the knowledge to hack, crack or steal don't have to ever interface with DRM (or at most it's a slight annoyance) whereas people that actually BUY the damn thing are subject to censure.
I wonder when the IP owners will get wise to the fact that they are only hurting their paying customers with the DRM. Probably not before they try distributing solely to machines that are sold as unopenable locked black boxes with speaker and screen directly integrated, which explode upon tampering.
Posted by Marcus (Member # 11890) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: Generally, it's not possible to buy ebooks that aren't crippled to near-uselessness.
Every ebook I've bought from Baen has been free of DRM.
quote:Originally posted by Ronin: while you may not have a choice about buying non-drm'd stuff you can either pirate it (and buy a copy of course!) or buy a copy in a format that has been cracked so that you can make it into a useable format
I will never, ever buy DRM'd content simply because I don't want to support such shenanigans. I also don't want more pbooks. That leaves pirating if the authors/publishers/webstores are so clueless they use DRM.
I have already read all enderverse-books as non-DRM'd ebooks (my reader doesn't even support DRM (not that I'd use it if it did)), but I would like to support OSC by paying for the ebooks, and perhaps also buy (non-DRM'd) enderverse-ebooks as gifts to others (hah, try to do that with DRM'd files).
Posted by Razputin (Member # 9522) on :
Nowadays when you buy a movie on DVD or BR, you also get a digital copy of the movie for your PC, I wonder if we will one day be entitled to an electronic version of the book when we buy the hardcover...