This man is a hero.

Read the first three chapters of Accelerando, by Charles Stross. It's available as a free ebook on his site: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html

Yeah, it can convert bewteen just about any ebook format you can imagine. There are also plugins to strip DRM, but amazon recently changed its DRM scheme, so YMMV.

Just buy the epub and convert it with Calibre.

Wow, the speed at which those images loaded brought me right back to 1998...

Ahh, but I'm a step ahead: I *already* filed a patent on patent term extension as a business model. ;)

Somebody ought to file a patent on copyright extension as a business model...

Seriously. And just install ghostery to avoid the tracking cookies. Or use a separate browser for company mandated social networking.

Wrapping up loose ends at the end of a series? I thought that fad was euthenized by Lost.

So this means they'll be able to charge less for service, right?