Things we already knew but the rest of the world is still learning now

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Ignacio.Agullo
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Beigetreten: 09/29/2009

Rob Donoghue on Twitter: "Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes
next week. The DRM'd books will stop working. I cannot believe that
sentence. "The books will stop working." I keep saying it and it sounds
worse each time."
https://twitter.com/rdonoghue/status/1144011630197522432

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jxself
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Beigetreten: 09/13/2010

"The books will stop working."

I am reminded of The Right to Read:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

As time goes on Stallman gets proven to be correct over and over again.

andyprough
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Beigetreten: 02/12/2015

Not only that, Microsoft has realized that any notations or highlights you made in your books may be worth money to you, so they are having to pay people $25 for each book they annotated.

"Even more bafflingly, this approach means that Microsoft was obligated to come up with a dollar value for any notes that people have added to their ebooks – because they will vanish too. It's $25, flat fee." https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/28/microsoft_ebooks_death/