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Subject: lyndrek (i think?) is right about books needing to be packaged with a digital copy
the more i think about it, the more i'm agreeing. i'd love to be able to have both a hard copy to give away and a digital copy for me to read. it works brilliantly with blurays! we get all 3 options with the bluray packages and they aren't any more expensive. i feel like it would help both with readers giving digital a shot and also help push more publishers towards giving us more books that way.

 

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Subject: lyndrek (i think?) is right about books needing to be packaged with a digital copy
I'd buy it just so I can put the mint physical copy on my shelf and then read it in the clearly superior digital format.

 

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Subject: lyndrek (i think?) is right about books needing to be packaged with a digital copy
yeah i'd do that for books i love and give away the physical copies of books i didn't love. it'd be a win all around.

 

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Subject: lyndrek (i think?) is right about books needing to be packaged with a digital copy
Yossarian_42 posted:
I'd buy it just so I can put the mint physical copy on my shelf and then read it in the clearly superior digital format.

 

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Subject: lyndrek (i think?) is right about books needing to be packaged with a digital copy
Hey that was my idea! tongue

lol but ya would be nice.

 

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Subject: lyndrek (i think?) is right about books needing to be packaged with a digital copy
baen books has already done that with a few books over the last few years. here is a link to where you can find downloadable copies. http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ baen has no problem with people copying them. in fact, they encourage it. ever since they started having free downloadable books, their sales of dead tree books have gone up.

 

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Subject: lyndrek (i think?) is right about books needing to be packaged with a digital copy
A good idea. But then movies should come packaged with the soundtrack CD imo too.

 

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Subject: lyndrek (i think?) is right about books needing to be packaged with a digital copy
movies come packaged with the bluray, dvd and digital copy of the movie. that's more than enough. i don't need their stupid maybe has one good song soundtracks.

 

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