Outlawed by Amazon DRM

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Post by paulsilver » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 9:39 AM UTC

Outlawed by Amazon DRM
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Post by capisce » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 9:45 AM UTC

That's very frightening, makes me reconsider buying more e-books from Amazon...

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Post by lancewiggs » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 9:56 AM UTC

I wonder whether this is related to Linn living in Norway, purchasing from Amazon.com and somehow Amazon.co.uk are getting in the middle, perhaps because they run Europe from there.

It's the game that many people play - trying to find the best Amazon (or Apple) store when they live and travel between countries. This means a constant struggle to find a combination of credit card, store with enough content (The US is best) and a local address (virtual and actual) to satisfy arcane internal rules.

Please Amazon - please move to one global store where any credit card from any country can purchase any edition of any book. Please Amazon and Apple, let us combine content from multiple stores into one account, and let us have a global price based on the best market. Yo usell more stuff, we but more as well.

Meanwhile take the chance to collect, and pay to the local authorities, consumption/sales tax based on the location of the IP address, not the credit card or address of the buyer. That way if someone is standing in the UK, buying content from the USA, then they pay UK tax (VAT), making it fairer versus the physical and local virtual alternatives.

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Post by js951534 » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 9:56 AM UTC

Pfft only more reason to use "free" websites for ebook downloads such as coinread.com

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Post by jwr » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 9:58 AM UTC

I treat all E-books purchased with DRM as rentals.

When making a decision whether to buy or not, I look at the price and consider whether I'm willing to pay this much to rent the book for an indeterminate amount of time, possibly as little as 3 months. Quite often it turns out that the price is too high. But I never delude myself that I actually "own" any of the DRM-restricted content that I paid for.

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Post by pwg » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 10:00 AM UTC

This post really brings into focus just how right Richard Stallman was when he penned "The Right to Read":

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

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Post by DiabloD3 » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 10:00 AM UTC

This is why you should use a DRM removal tool and use a third party e-book reader on an Android tablet.

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Post by ghshephard » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 10:02 AM UTC

capisce wrote: post #2

That's very frightening, makes me reconsider buying more e-books from Amazon...

It's important to note that you don't actually buy e-books from Amazon, you license the right to read, and when that license is revoked/cancelled, those books are no longer available to you.

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Post by Nursie » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 10:02 AM UTC

It's almost as if they want to drive people to alernate ways of acquiring content...

I still read a mix of kindle stuff and paper books, but the kindle is invaluable for travelling light. This is disappointing to hear about.

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Post by Nursie » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 10:04 AM UTC

ghshephard wrote: post #8

capisce wrote: post #2

That's very frightening, makes me reconsider buying more e-books from Amazon...

It's important to note that you don't actually buy e-books from Amazon, you license the right to read, and when that license is revoked/cancelled, those books are no longer available to you.

I wonder if some large organisation (EU?) could force a change in this idea? It does seem like an end-run around so much in the way of consumer rights.