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goku12today at 10:35 AM2 repliesview on HN

I buy ebooks straight from publishers like Nostarch and Leanpub. (In fact, I have an older edition of this book). There are a few books that are sold directly by the authors too. All of them DRM-free.

I actively avoid publishers and sellers who don't respect me as a consumer/reader. People need to start demanding better deals, or else we'll end up with monopolies that won't think twice about deleting books in your custody that you purchased from them.


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xqb64today at 1:58 PM

Got any notable suggestions from Leanpub?

notamariotoday at 11:17 AM

Yarr, that do be a problem matie.

In all seriousness, how has DRM not yet been recognized as the failure it is?