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Originally Posted by luka
It is all about the control and extracting more money from the reader. Preventing piracy is just an excuse.
1. You don't own the content any more.
A paper copy or a PDF copy was ownership. Now you are just "renting" the content that you have no control off and that can be switched off at any time.
2. They are selling PDFs separately on CDs (see Ken's comment above). Let me guess, even though you have digital subscription now you have to pay again for the CDs to get the PDFs.
Basically now they are double-charging for the same information.
Control and money.
Finally, if you google "Zinio PDF" you may get surprised  |
with regards to #2 - the last time that I checked with S&T (around 3 years ago), I was told that the annual DVDs did not contain PDFs, but required the included software to be able to read the issues. Did they change it?