May-24-2010, 08:46 PM (UTC)
There's a really interesting and enlightening discussion going on about this very topic over at Robin's newsgroup (here).
Nuytsia, I know what you mean. For a readers (and I bet for a writer as well!) it's really frustrating when you can't read something you bought with another device you had to updgrade to, or you can't buy something because it's only available in a different format. It's bad enough that the publishing world is divided so that many people will have to wait for a year to purchase a new book (see Robin's UK and US editions) - we don't need an additional mess with limited ebook rights on top of that. It's like those web pages that say "content can't be viewed from your location" - EXCUSE ME, WHAT LOCATION? I thought this was the Internet? (Sorry, that's another rant entirely.
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Nuytsia, I know what you mean. For a readers (and I bet for a writer as well!) it's really frustrating when you can't read something you bought with another device you had to updgrade to, or you can't buy something because it's only available in a different format. It's bad enough that the publishing world is divided so that many people will have to wait for a year to purchase a new book (see Robin's UK and US editions) - we don't need an additional mess with limited ebook rights on top of that. It's like those web pages that say "content can't be viewed from your location" - EXCUSE ME, WHAT LOCATION? I thought this was the Internet? (Sorry, that's another rant entirely.
)
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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