iChapters
January 31, 2008
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 8:04 pm
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.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
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.
February 8th, 2008 at 10:37 am
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.
February 8th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I didn’t realize their DRM was so bad…thanks for letting us know!