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  thatguy, 3 Nov 2005 @ 3:54pm

  
  

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  Times like these make me happy about never learning to read.

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  Rikko, 3 Nov 2005 @ 5:03pm

  
  

  Somebody actually got paid to come up with that id

  Well, if nothing else this should inject a little life blood into the e-book piracy community.
  
  Nice work, boneheads.

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    Anonymous Coward, 3 Nov 2005 @ 7:38pm

    
    

    Re: Somebody actually got paid to come up with tha

    Obviously. Ever heard of something called a library? I believe it is somewhere you get books, for free. Or so I am told.

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  cnote, 3 Nov 2005 @ 11:13pm

  
  

  I'd pay

  If Amazon has the searching functions right, I'd probably pay for it. Many technical books have chapters that are appropriate to what I do, and chapters that are completely inappropriate to what I do. I'd be nice if there were a compromise between what Google had offered and what Amazon is offering. I think that the authors deserve money for their books, but we have the right to figure out if that book, or sections of that book are right for us.
  Traditional bookstores offer us the option of thumbing through books. There isn't a great equivalent online.
  Some technical books cost 80-120 dollars. What if I want to look at a single topic in one of these books? The author should deserve the work that he put into this. He should get the money from me that I'm willing to pay for the chapter.

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    Anonymous Coward, 4 Nov 2005 @ 1:04am

    
    

    Re: I'd pay

    I bet your customers would LOVE for you to use the same pricing structure with them:
    
    "We will give you 2.00 for that widget. Don't like it, too bad - you deserve what we are willing to pay you!"

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    Newob, 4 Nov 2005 @ 5:19am

    
    

    Re: I'd pay

    Or we can just put all the information on Wikipedia. Facts aren't copyrighted.
    

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      Anonymous, 4 Nov 2005 @ 8:13am

      
      

      Book Stores

      You know what you can always do too is to read a chapter or too at a book store. they make it easier and easier to accomadate you with that. Their return policy is rediculous too. Any employee will tell you that you can easily buy a book, read it, and return it for a full refund. Shady yes, but so what.

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