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January 31, 2008
iChapters
On the same "green" theme, I recently got an email from someone about iChapters, which is a textbook retailer that focuses on eBooks and eChapters. They have a presence on Facebook as well. Their prices are pretty good, but the cool thing is that they plant trees:
Every time you buy one of our eBooks or eChapters, we will plant a tree in your honor through Paso Pacifico, our Non-Profit tree planting partner. We also hope that you will join this effort by planting as many trees as you wish.
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Although iChapters claims it is saving trees, in fact, the company has made a double attack on the environment by putting time limits on all of its electronic books, which ensured that every e-book costumer will print his or her book out. Please support our action against iChapters at http://iChapters-sucks.blogspot.com/ (no monetary obligation or whatsoever)
Posted by: Felix Fazliddin | October 8, 2008
I didn't realize their DRM was so bad...thanks for letting us know!
Posted by: Sarah Houghton-Jan (LiB) | February 8, 2008
I got the same email and had a look at ichapter's ToS. Hoo boy--if possible, it's worse than Amazon's for the Kindle. You don't purchase the material--it's not yours to keep. For most titles, you lease it for 6 mos, and have to reauthenticate every 60 days. Only accessible from 2 computers. Right click disable. At the end of 6 months, you have to re-lease it at full price of first lease. http://www.ichapters.com/market/terms.html Planting a tree just doesn't make up for that kind of crap.
Posted by: rochelle | February 8, 2008
EcoLibris does something similar, only they send you stickers for a buck each to put on books or whatever. Each dollar spent equals a tree planted. They've partnered with BookMooch, too.
Posted by: Anna | February 4, 2008
iChapters is one of the sites that sells electronic editions of textbooks. Not all of the rest plant trees (that I know of), but if you are looking for more places, I've started a list.
Posted by: Peter Murray | January31, 2008
