No wonder ebooks aren’t selling

I decided that I would like to try the first book of the Dresden files, but I have no more shelf space, and I have my new ereader, so I thought I would get it in ebook format.  Bloody hell!  They really do do everything in their power to stop you from reading your ebooks once you have them, don’t they?  The e bookshops in the US don’t sell to the UK.  Once I’d found it in Waterstones UK, they force you to download some kind of Adobe software to enable you to read it.  Do I look like I have 13 MB of computer space going spare?  Well I don’t!  And then, even if you cave in and have this unwanted software, you then have to register it with Adobe before they’ll allow you to take your ebook off your computer and put it on your e-reader.

Do I want to register my computer with Adobe?  No I don’t.  Who knows what they will do, once they’ve got me?  Put DRM on the rest of my ebooks?  Prevent me from using the rest of my library unless that too is registered with them?

Call me paranoid, but I don’t care to find out.  So I have refused to register – which means that I can only read the ebook on my computer.  There’s no way I’m sitting at my computer to read a book – that’s why I bought an ereader in the first place.  So I’ve uninstalled the unwanted Adobe Lit thingy, and have spent £6 on an ebook I have no way of reading.

I’ve never been tempted to get a pirate copy of any book I could get on MBAM or one of the other romance etailers, because there you just pay the money, download the file, and it’s yours to put on your laptop or your e-reader as you like.  Simple – it’s like buying the book and receiving it.  But this rights management palaver that says I can grudgingly download the book but I’m not allowed to read it without signing over my firstborn first.  Fuck that.  I didn’t want to read it that badly anyway.

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Day 22

22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you’ve never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.

If I haven’t written it, and I don’t intend to write it, is it really a scene at all? I mean, yes, there was the one where Farrant survived and he, John and Alfie became a threesome, while Lady Lisburn had an affair with her stableboy. But that was never really going to happen.

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