Let's say you buy your book as a PDF and without copy protection. It's a sure bet that sales will be less than if the content was locked down in some way. The author might have a free PDF somewhere but if you insist on PDF, the author has a choice to offer this or not.
A few folk I've run into think the author should have no say!
Bob
Started using iTunes and made a few purchases. Discovered that I could buy an album, download it and then save the songs to another drive for backup, but that could not be done for movie, which have to be played in iTunes, and on the same device (or shared devices). Which is okay since I don't watch a lot of movies and use iTunes to hunt down rare soundtracks.
I'm confused about books. Every book I checkout says that you must have iBook installed and iOS as an operating system to view the book. On other sites people keep talking about getting "the PDF of the book" from iTunes.
So, I guess my questions are; 1) where do I find any PDF books or magazines in iTunes, and 2) how to I download them as PDFs that can be viewed anywhere?
Thanks.

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