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I have no help to offer, but I will feel outraged with you.
Apparently, digital formats are not a new, more convenient way to deliver products. They are in fact a way to severly limit the quality of "ownership" that a consumer has after exchanging their hard-earned money for something which is claimed to be for sale. If you purchase a book from Barnes & Noble, you can take it anywhere you want, and show it to whoever you want, you can give it away to charity, or cut it up with scissors and make a collage. This is entirely expected, and has been from the dawn of time, because you paid your fucking money for it - it's yours now (YOU BOUGHT IT)!!! This basic premise has ceased to apply, in many situations. A "new way" of doing things has arrived.
The physical, mechanical products (cars, toaster ovens) we purchase are designed to fail, necessitating replacement. And the digital products we purchase are similarly designed to fail, or more accurately, designed not to deliver what an unsuspecting consumer thinks they promise to deliver.
Oh, and (doesn't help you this time) I think they sell audio books packaged with an internal player, although I don't know if this is cost effective.
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