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Subject: Slightly off topic - Ebooks
From: blu-Z8efaSeK1ezqlBn2x/YWAg at public.gmane.org (Edward Ned Harvey)
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:08:51 -0500
In-reply-to: <20100206034118.GQ32580-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA@public.gmane.org>
References: <28e71ace1002051934se2853d1m1c396526488bedb4@mail.gmail.com> <20100206034118.GQ32580@tao.merseine.nu>

> Yes. Don't buy DRM'd books. Wait for another year or so; the
> market will sort itself out, and the hardware will get better
> and cheaper.

This is really the comment I'm curious about.  Why do you say "don't buy drm
books?"  What do you think will change in the next year, and what bad thing
do you think will happen, if you buy drm'd books within the next year?

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