I just got off my last Facebook 30-day suspension, so I'm not posting there anymore. I just posted this and left it up.
Posted on 04/02/2019 1:48:12 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Microsoft has a DRM-locked ebook store that isn't making enough money, so they're shutting it down and taking away every book that every one of its customers acquired effective July 1.
Customers will receive refunds.
When I was a bookseller, nothing I could do would result in your losing the book that I sold you. If I regretted selling you a book, I didn't get to break into your house and steal it, even if I left you a cash refund for the price you paid.The idea that the books I buy can be relegated to some kind of f---ing software license is the most grotesque and awful thing I can imagine: if the publishing industry deliberately set out to destroy any sense of intrinsic, civilization-supporting value in literary works, they could not have done a better job.
(Excerpt) Read more at boingboing.net ...
There is only one DVD replicating plant left in the US.
Streaming is the future.
That’s what I’ve always believed...I’m even doing my own backup drives.
Wonder what Venezuelan’s are doing
gutenberg.org is a fantastic site!
On my to-do list: browse their selection and copy many of the classics onto CD-ROM.
I’ve been telling people that for years. That is why I buy real books and DVDs when possible.
I just got off my last Facebook 30-day suspension, so I'm not posting there anymore. I just posted this and left it up.
If folks bothered to read the boilerplate that comes with anything ebook related, they’d already know this.
It has been obvious for quite some time with the license keys, the phone-home crap and other similar stuff that they most emphatically do believe their customers are thieves, and they treat you accordingly every chance they get. I do not understand why anyone does business with them who doesn't have a gun to their heads.
Yeah, if is isn’t paper it isn’t a book.
Gutenberg has been around for quite some time. They are excellent. There is also a PG-Canada and PG-Austrailia that have some books that you can't have on the main PG site, because the U.S. Copyright sucks so bad. For instance, if you're interested in the works of C.S. Lewis, you'll find a bunch of them on the PG-CA site, because the copyright has expired there, and won't for many years in the U.S..
Also, if anyone is interested in helping to proofread public domain books for Project Gutenberg, you can go to the Distributed Proofing site and lend a hand. Each book is proofread at least 3 times, which is why PG books are pretty high quality compared to other sources of public domain books. Just proofing 3 pages a day, which will take just a few minutes makes a big difference. So far Distributed Proofreading has produced over 37,000 books that are available for free download in multiple formats.
See post 70 for additional PG references
Download and convert - then you have your own copy - been saying that for years.
SD - for your perusal.
I remember the request for proofreaders, back when I used CP/M !
They had a BBS to DIAL into with your acoustic modem and download it onto the new 5 1/4 inch floppy.
Ping
It’s long past time to take Amazon down. Period.
Well that explains the disappearance of my copy of Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail.
Thanks for the ping.
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