[GTALUG] microsoft giving away science fiction ebook, free but DRMed

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com>

| Unless it features annoying robotic paperclip sidekicks, Big Bob Brother
| and huge killer blue screens, I'm not interested.

Actually there are some notable authors.  Actually, to be more clear:
I recognize some authors' names, and I'm not really current on SF authors.

| > (I haven't checked that there is DRM but I'd be surprised if each
| > store applied its own.)

Sorry, I missed a "didn't" in that sentence.

| Don't worry, they will. Mercifully, we have good folks like Apprentice
| Alf who make DRM go away, so we could have an epub of this if we wanted.

That would be breaking the copyright law Harper brought in a year or
two ago.  Criminal sanctions!

Imagine "stealing" free stuff!  (I object to using the term "stealing"
for unsanctioned copying.)  (Hmmm.  I seem to have used "sanction" in
almost opposite senses.)

I don't strip DRM (at least not yet) but I thought that the popular
tool for ebooks was Calibre + some plugin.