Hi,
Many thanks for the heads up. The price was right, so I also bought it.
I have to say, they don't make digital publishing a nice experience for the end user.
I don't have an eReader or iPad, so I have to jump through hoops to be able to read the book offline:
- Click 'Download PDF' - but I don't get a PDF file, I get a pdf.acsm file which I can't open.
- Google search - need 'Adobe Digital Editions' software.
- Search Adobe.com - download and install software via Flash (makes me uneasy due to Flash's constant security problems).
- Input Adobe ID (luckily I already had one after purchasing Lightroom) but alas I can't paste in my password, so I'm forced to laboriously type out a long, complicated, randomly generated, secure password
- Load the pdf.acsm file, start the download
error!
- Go back to Google, download epub.acsm file, load the file, download the book - finally!
- Use the 'Adobe Digital Editions' software to read the book, where I get a brief spinning beachball every time I go to another page - grrr!
The book may be awesome, but I really don't have the desire to actually read it.
If the book wasn't such a brilliant price, I'd be seriously pee'd off.
I won't be buying any normally priced digital books in the future, especially as the regular price is only a quid or two less than the printed version that's destroyed a forest for the paper and destroyed the ozone layer being transported around the world to my doorstep.
I seriously hope that it's a far better experience if you use an eReader or iPad.
Oops - sorry about all that. I wasn't planning on a rant, but I just couldn't stop myself.
Thanks again for the heads up, maybe one day I'll be bored enough to suffer the hassle to read it.
Cheers,
Tony