PDF availability of things I want to read

> ______________________________________________________________________ 
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> 2b. Re: reader polling shows shift in preferred formats
>     Posted by: "Brenna Lyons" [email protected] sunnie4168
>     Date: Thu May 28, 2009 11:12 am ((PDT))
>
> "That probably accounts for it being popular, but not a dominant as
> might have been expected. How can PDF dominate if you the stuff you
> actually want to read isn't available in that format?"
>
> I'm not sure what you "want to read" that isn't available in it,  
> save maybe
> some non-fiction or e-books from the big NY conglomerates. As you said
> earlier in your post, "a vast quantity" is available in PDF. I've  
> found
> precisely one book in the last six months I wanted to purchase in e- 
> book
> that wasn't available in PDF...unsecured PDF, to boot. ALL of my  
> publishers
> use PDF (almost all unsecured PDF, I'll note).

OK, please point me to a place where I can purchase an unsecured PDF  
of any of these titles:

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher  
Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 978-0547273426

Richard A. Posner, "A Failure of Capitalism," Harvard University  
Press, 978-0674035140

Patrick O'Brian, "The Fortune of War," (#6 in the Aubrey/Maturin  
"Master and Commander" series), Norton, 978-0393037067

Paul Schneider, "Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend,"  
Henry Holt and Co., 978-0805086720

Mark Bittman, "Food Matters," Simon & Schuster, 978-1416575641



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