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Interesting Links for 04-03-2016

Mar 04, 2016 12:00

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alitheapipkin March 4 2016, 12:27:58 UTC

That is indeed one of the reasons I still buy hardcopy books and generally use my Kindle for the equivalent of books I'd borrow from the library or buy at a charity shop and re-donate after reading (although I'm one of those odd people who turn their WIFI off when they go to bed at night so my Kindle is only usually connected when I'm downloading new purchases, which would presumably make it rather difficult for Amazon to delete my content!)

andrewducker March 4 2016, 12:35:38 UTC

It takes milliseconds for it to tell your Kindle to delete stuff, and could happen any time you connect it to the internet.

But Amazon will hopefully be around for a while.

alitheapipkin March 4 2016, 12:41:39 UTC

Well yes, I more meant difficult because if I had prior warning I could just never connect it again. Although of course I'm pretty sure they did not in fact warn people last time they decided to take something down.

a_pawson March 4 2016, 20:23:28 UTC

In this case, apparently people will not lose the content they paid for. The customer list has been transferred to Sainsbury's Books (I had no idea that even existed), who are guaranteeing that everyone will still have access to paid for content. I suspect B&N are doing this because they have some legal liability if they just closd down and everyone lost everything.

threegoldfish March 5 2016, 00:49:08 UTC

I'll be interested to hear if it works. I've heard many a horror story about account transfers when a publish died or was bought out. People didn't always keep their access.

andrewducker March 4 2016, 12:36:04 UTC

This is, of course, why I strip the DRM off of any book I buy, as soon as I buy it.

But I shouldn't bloody have to.

errolwi March 4 2016, 18:59:04 UTC

Ditto, and hear hear. I give preference to stores that don't have DRM, even though the workflow after purchases is effectively the same (now that Calibre has the appropriate addins).

theweaselking March 10 2016, 02:57:14 UTC

Buying DRM books only encourages selling of DRM books, because "see? DRM doesn't inhibit sales. Look, Andrew bought the DRM'd book."

It doesn't matter that you *can* rebind the broken book you bought, the book you bought was still in shit condition and required rebinding, and you paid "properly bound book" price for it and then rebound it yourself. And the seller is all "Pfft, fuck bindings, books don't need BINDINGS. See? Andrew buys books without bindings ALL THAT TIME! Let's sell more unbound books."

Buying DRM-locked books is gross, and nobody should do it, ever. It's like surfing without an adblocker, except instead of malware you get trash books. Being able to rescue the books from the trash doesn't change that you bought trash.

theweaselking March 10 2016, 02:57:47 UTC

I have opinions.

andrewducker March 10 2016, 13:10:34 UTC

I'd noticed :-)

I'm willing to buy books with rubbish DRM on them, because I want to give money to the writer, and this allows me to do that fairly easily.

If the DRM was unbreakable then I'd be much less likely to.

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