A bit of background reading, in order to understand why that trip to Champaign/Urbana is so important.
As one commentator to the blog post, below, says "when I buy a copy [of a book] it?s mine now. I should be free to read/loan/paper mache till my little girlie heart is content with my copy." That right is called the First Sale Doctrine and it's there in the US Copyright Law. And that right is being seriously threatened by DRM'ed e-books. Amalyah Keshet ________________________________________ ? http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/drm-free-for-you-and-me/#When:13:33:43Z "Forcing consumers to jump through multiple hoops to read a damn book is not a way to win customers in a down market. And when vendors and distributors have a big fight and disassociate with one another, forcing consumers to jump through more hoops to attain the actual content they paid for, it gets even more ridiculous. I don?t at any time expect that Barnes and Noble would suddenly decide to come in to my house and repossess all the books I own, yet ebook ?owners? were scrambling to redownload and potentially strip the DRM off ebook files so that their books weren?t suddenly inaccessible and unavailable." ________________________________________
