did not buy a book

[akk]

Today, I refused buying a book I truly wish to read because it isn't available in ebook format. It's the first time, I consequently stopped further overloading my bursting shelves.

I am willing and able to deal with all - except the content-crippling forms (!) - of current DRM (Amazon, Adobe *BLECH*, watermarks...) in order to get to read a book I want.

I obtained books from Smashwords (sadly their paying system no longer plays with my credit card institute), Amazon.de, Thalia.de,... even Google Books (albeit mostly collecting their freebies, as I do with Google music and video ;-) ) without batting an eyelash, but paper-only these days means hauling 800 pages of dead weight on to my daily commute *or* only reading on weekends instead of writing, both "features" tend to result in the book not being read at all ( = wasted money), in addition to having to find shelf space for it.

So, Martin Schemm's book got relocated from my "check for reading" list to "hardware only / not worth it". For a bookoholic like me, that's a sad event!

Comments

[akk]

Hi,
Danke für den Vorschlag, aber das Problem ist nicht DRM sondern dass das Buch elektronisch nicht gibt. Nirgendwo. Vielleicht wird es irgendwann später auch als eBook veröffentlicht, aber wenn ich mir die anderen Titel des Autors so ansehe, werde ich darauf wohl lange warten. Schade. :)

[valendith]

Nun ja, DAS ist ein völlig anderes Problem, das sich nicht so einfach lösen lässt.... :)

Merke: man sollte einen Eintrag erst komplett lesen und nicht überfliegen, bevor man Ihn kommentiert..

[akk]

:-) No prob.
Actually, I wrote the post exactly because I was annoyed at the author/publishers attitude of insisting on paper-only. It definitely cost them a buyer in my case.

[valendith]

Well, THAT is something I can get behind...

One of my favourite authors of all time is just getting her books transferred into digital format - but to be fair, it is 15 years after her death and she started writing in the late fifties...