Half-price Ebooks for Day Against DRM

The biggest issue I have with publisher websites is the lack of a strong review ecosystem. I've started looking at Amazon or industry blogs for reviews and recommendations, but that gets frustrating and is slow.

Just wonder if the publisher could arrange to get rights to it's books' reviews across seller sites and aggregate the results. The truth is, apart from occasional sales like this, the publisher sites are rarely in price competition with any other sellers.

But as far as Amazon goes, I'll buy the books in paper (or pay more for DRM-free) to avoid the Kindle DRM and being locked into one ecosystem. It almost feels like a luxury to be able to loan out or give away paper books. Kindle books just feel more like renting a book than owning it. Which is, legally, probably a closer metaphor for the transaction.

Re: Half-price Ebooks for Day Against DRM

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Post by dchest » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 12:46 PM UTC

mercurysmessage wrote: post #6

Anyone read PoC||GTFO? Looks like it'd be interesting.

You can read them online for free https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

But the bible must be a better format :-)

Re: Half-price Ebooks for Day Against DRM

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Post by rdl » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 12:51 PM UTC

ballenf wrote: post #7

The biggest issue I have with publisher websites is the lack of a strong review ecosystem. I've started looking at Amazon or industry blogs for reviews and recommendations, but that gets frustrating and is slow. Just wonder if the publisher could arrange to get rights to it's books' reviews across seller sites and aggregate the results. The truth is, apart from occasional sales like this, the publisher sites are rare…

I'm pretty sure if you buy a book from No Starch and have serious complaints, Bill would probably refund you. They are really one of the most community friendly publishers out there.

Re: Half-price Ebooks for Day Against DRM

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Post by SonOfLilit » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 12:52 PM UTC

dchest wrote: post #8

mercurysmessage wrote: post #6

Anyone read PoC||GTFO? Looks like it'd be interesting.

You can read them online for free https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ But the bible must be a better format :-)

Also, they're AMAZING

And if you like them, you may like https://www.xorpd.net/pages/xchg_rax/snip_00.html, a book of x64 poems (full disclosure: I was a reviewer)