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Ripoff artists

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Contributed by: decadence Monday, April 28 2008 @ 03:06 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Unbelievable direct ripoff of Project Gutenberg. All these books are easily available in text, doc and pdf format here: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

It's clowns like this who give Mac shareware a bad name. Turning freeware volunteer labour into payware for the naive. Shame.   
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Ripoff artists - 0rpheus

I don't see how it's "ripping off" Project Gutenberg. It's essentially an iTunes.app for PG and other public domain texts. I don't think the old eReader software (once part of Palm) is going to be Universal. This looks like a nice alternative, with many useful features.

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Monday, April 28 2008 @ 06:11 PM PDT


Ripoff artists - mikepower

There are tons of apps that charge for making a process, which is freely available, more convenient. These people make it clear in the first sentence that the works on offer are free and available on the web. This is a download and reader tool - end of story. There is no 'con'. If you prefer to go to the Guttengurg site and navigate and download using it's clunky interface then do it and save yourself a few bucks. If you want convenient search and download, readablity and the facility to customize your reading experience and you are happy to pay the price of a few coffees to achieve that, then this is for you.

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Wednesday, May 28 2008 @ 02:54 AM PDT