I don’t want to fuck Rowling.
Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 3 months agoDon’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.
_cnt0@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 months 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 3 months ago
I would be astonished if publishers figured out a way to put DRM on a paper copy of a book.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 months ago
I should have specified I was talking about ebooks. That’s on me.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It might not be legal, but in my book, it is perfectly ethical to pirate a copy without DRM if you already own a legitimate copy (paper or DRM-inclusive)
Localhorst86@feddit.org 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
They asked for a DRM-free ebook. Of course a physical book lacks digital rights management.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It didn’t say “e-book” when I originally wrote the reply
notabot@lemm.ee 3 months 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.