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Re:Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales by pkaye on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @10:54PM (#18767161)
There are many books (atleast technical books) that come in pdf format with watermarking but no DRM.
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Re:Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales by marvindanig on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @11:32PM (#18767321)
PDF is a file format that is largely meant for enterprise documents. Books aren't files to begin with.
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Re:Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales by pkaye on Thursday December 27, 2018 @12:52AM (#18767661)
Those same companies (Informit by Pearson, Manning, Packt, etc) also provide the files in epub and mobi format. Again with just watermarks.
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