[rcarr]

This does suck for obvious reasons, but I also think we need to get a good, thin, eInk tablet like Remarkable or Boox Note down to the sub 100 usd/gbp price. Kindles are ok but they’re too small for textbooks and you’re also locked into Amazon. Plus they’re read only (apart from the latest one), and the new generation of tablets around atm can serve as paper like notebooks as well as eReaders. I like reading paper books as much as the next guy but it is hard to justify sending millions of books each year all over the world when we could send them over the wire for a fraction of the cost and pollution.

[rvba]

Until they decide to retroactively delete your book, or change the text, because someone didnt like it.

Or more prosaic "feature": ban the book in your region.

[rcarr]

Well if it’s in a proprietary format, then sure. But if it’s not then no, they can’t do that. And it’s not like paper books haven’t been subjected to regional bans and text changes (see the recent roald Dahl news) so I don’t know what you’re getting at there. People can still import paper books regardless and people can get around digital restrictions through things like VPNs, torrents and what not also. There’s nothing stopping someone from sending a usb stick with an entire library of books into a country either and arguably a lot easier than sending one paperback as you could hide a usb in anything.