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By David Rothman

image Here’s some old news from an MR forum that we might not have run before. It’s about a DRM-related practice that would bring joy to an unreformed Ebenezer Scrooge no matter what the season.

In yet another attack on fair use, Amazon is quietly limiting the number of clips you can make from a book for your e-notes. Just what does this mean for the professors and students who trustingly buy DXes? Bb RealTech complains:


Contrary to what Amazon or the Publishers must assume, I’m not going to use the ‘Save as Clipping’ feature to copy the entire book—I’d rather get the book from the library and photocopy each page, because it would be easier. And I can’t wait to find out what happens when several college students hit this limit with their fancy, and expensive, new large form Kindle DXes.

More importantly, Amazon does not mention this limitation with the sales material for the device, though the company does tout the ‘Save as clipping’ capability…

Note, also, that Amazon is attaching what seems to be a default value of 10% to books that are no longer covered by copyright, but which you can download for free from Amazon. Looks like Amazon is also attaching DRM to these books, too. My suggestion would be to get these books elsewhere, like feedbooks.com, and hope they aren’t so limited.

(Via MobileRead.)

 
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