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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nopantsyet" data-source="post: 1592827" data-attributes="member: 3109">My money and my mouth?  They're like this.  (crosses fingers)Seriously, I've bought a lot of PDFs over the past couple of years.  Probably somewhere on the order of three dozen.  Some have been printed in full or in part.  Many excepts have been pasted into my campaign notes.  I have put them on a CD so I could view them at different locations.The fact of the matter is, it's only complicated because vendors are lazy.  Music companies and publishers could, with minimal capital investment, put into place a legitimate electronic delivery method that would make life much easier without all the restrictions.  I've done significant software development work in the area of content security, and it's not that hard.  The problem is the media companies are unwilling to change their business methods.  Electronic content delivery does not mean simply that they get to eliminate manufacturing costs.  They have to understand it is not the same product as a physical book.  (Or CD for that matter.)  Customers know that, and they purchase the product that fits their needs.  But selling the different format while restricting the advantages eliminates the valut proposition.  From a business standpoint, it's ludicrous; and anyone who does so should be forced to sit through elementary economics courses until they figure that out.I'm still not settled as to whether I will boycott the companies or just the retailer.  I mean, I don't want these companies to disappear.  I just want them to sell PDFs that I can use.  Then maybe they can sustain the losses until they realize they are blocking out hundreds of eager would-be customers.</blockquote>

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