Someone gets it right!
Sep. 7th, 2011 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker2000AD are selling some of their trade paperbacks as digital editions. And they are doing it _right_.
1) The price is about a third of the cost of the physical version.
2) It's in utterly DRM-free formats, both cbz and pdf.
Now, will someone please let the book industry know? I refused to pay for DRMed music, and I'm sure as hell not changing that for books.
via Andrew Hickey.
1) The price is about a third of the cost of the physical version.
2) It's in utterly DRM-free formats, both cbz and pdf.
Now, will someone please let the book industry know? I refused to pay for DRMed music, and I'm sure as hell not changing that for books.
via Andrew Hickey.
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Date: 2011-09-07 08:17 am (UTC)Well that and I want the stories.
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Date: 2011-09-07 08:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-07 08:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-07 08:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-07 05:36 pm (UTC)I use ComicBookLover for all my digital reading, and even on my 30" monitor it can be a bit uncomfortable. A kindle wouldn't be any fun at all.
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Date: 2011-09-08 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-07 09:33 am (UTC)As regards boycotting, I differentiate between DRM schemes like Steam that actually provide the paying customer with some advantages (automatic updates and patches, easy digital download experience, can install on any machine and link to your account etc) and ones that just seem designed to piss off the customer. This is why I didn't buy Mass Effect or the first couple of Assassin's Creed games.
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Date: 2011-09-07 09:53 am (UTC)I'm happy to pay Spotify for access to music, knowing that it's full of DRM, and will vanish when I stop paying. If I was _buying_ that music, I'd be demanding that it was entirely DRM-free.
I tend to view Steam as more like a rental service. Everything is accessed through them, and they patch it, and provide access wherever I am. It's obviously not the same as an actual rental service, but it feels close enough to me that I can live with it. If they were selling me a bunch of files to install myself, without the additional service, then I wouldn't be happy with the DRM attached to it.
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Date: 2011-09-08 07:55 pm (UTC)(Mass Effect is on Steam -- I think they may have changed the DRM to do so).
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Date: 2011-09-07 05:40 pm (UTC)unfortunately I got burned by them selling in US$, meaning I got whacked with conversion costs and charges, tripling the price of every purchase
hoping this'll work a little better
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Date: 2011-09-07 06:20 pm (UTC)I hope they expand their catalogue, and soon. I'd spend a lot of money there
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