<story><title>I won’t buy ebooks anymore</title><url>https://dustri.org/b/i-wont-buy-ebooks-anymore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kayodelycaon</author><text>Let me get this straight, the author has a bad experience with one website selling ebooks, so they decide they’ll never buy ebooks ever again?&lt;p&gt;In real life, this would be the equivalent of getting one bad meal at a restaurant chain in a city you’ve never been to before, so you stop eating at that chain anywhere else, despite positive experiences in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leephillips</author><text>I think it would be more like deciding never to eat in any restaurant anywhere.&lt;p&gt;The headline says that he won’t ever buy ebooks, then lists good places to buy ebooks. I guess he is exaggerating for effect?&lt;p&gt;But it’s true, nobody should accept DRM. Here is the statement of the publisher who sells my gnuplot book:&lt;p&gt;“We believe that when you buy a book, it belongs to you. That’s why we use no ‘digital rights management’ or anything else that interferes with your rights. You can make as many personal backups as you want, and use the book on any number of your own devices. If you lose your files, you can just download them again, forever.”</text></comment>
<story><title>I won’t buy ebooks anymore</title><url>https://dustri.org/b/i-wont-buy-ebooks-anymore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kayodelycaon</author><text>Let me get this straight, the author has a bad experience with one website selling ebooks, so they decide they’ll never buy ebooks ever again?&lt;p&gt;In real life, this would be the equivalent of getting one bad meal at a restaurant chain in a city you’ve never been to before, so you stop eating at that chain anywhere else, despite positive experiences in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>black_puppydog</author><text>Seems to me that all (major) ebook retailers try to lock down the files in one way or another. So yeah, if the chances of having a bad experience buying ebooks are high, I can see why &amp;quot;just download it and be done with it&amp;quot; is a compelling offer.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m all for finding ways of letting authors survive, or better yet thrive. But the current market seems to cater to the publishers, not the authors (cf: movie industry, music industry) so I don&amp;#x27;t even feel all that bad about that.&lt;p&gt;To stay in the allegory: if it was common practice and somehow widely acceptable for restaurants to use boatloads of laxatives during food preparation, but they only told you so after you asked to see the manager, would you judge the people who just outright refused to eat out any longer? The stress of finding a laxative free restaurant would simply outweigh the benefit from eating out.</text></comment>