Don’t do that. Authors make next to nothing from their books. You don’t have to support Amazon, but at least buy a paper copy or audiobook to support the author.
I enjoy reading dead tree books as much as anyone, and whilest the publisher/distributor can’t take it away, there are plenty of ways you can lose access to them. Fire and flood being the two obvious ones, whereas digital books can be backed up offsite. It’s also easier to carry many books when they’re digital compared to physical.
For books I care about I try to get both a physical and a (drm free) digital copy for the best of both world.
I buy DRM free books off humble bundle. Even if I already have previously downloaded them. I will not give money to anything with DRM on it if I don’t have to. These authors aren’t getting money from me because they don’t offer a product I want (DRM free books). Other sources do have this product so they can blame themselves or their publisher for losing sales.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t do that. Authors make next to nothing from their books. You don’t have to support Amazon, but at least buy a paper copy or audiobook to support the author.
Unless it’s J. K. Rowling. Fuck Rowling.
Localhorst86@feddit.org 1 day ago
I remember an email I sent to Randall Munroe once, asking where I can buy his Book “What if” without DRM.
He emailed me back that unfortunately there is no place to buy it without DRM, because of the publisher, but he also linked this comic in his email:
xkcd.com/488/
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Here’s a DRM-free copy for sale:
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It’ll look like this:
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ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
They asked for a DRM-free ebook. Of course a physical book lacks digital rights management.
notabot@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I enjoy reading dead tree books as much as anyone, and whilest the publisher/distributor can’t take it away, there are plenty of ways you can lose access to them. Fire and flood being the two obvious ones, whereas digital books can be backed up offsite. It’s also easier to carry many books when they’re digital compared to physical.
For books I care about I try to get both a physical and a (drm free) digital copy for the best of both world.
_cnt0@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I don’t want to fuck Rowling.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I buy DRM free books off humble bundle. Even if I already have previously downloaded them. I will not give money to anything with DRM on it if I don’t have to. These authors aren’t getting money from me because they don’t offer a product I want (DRM free books). Other sources do have this product so they can blame themselves or their publisher for losing sales.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would be astonished if publishers figured out a way to put DRM on a paper copy of a book.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I should have specified I was talking about ebooks. That’s on me.