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Old 12-08-2004, 01:43 AM
Janak Parekh
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Default Re: Must Enter a Credit Card!?

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Originally Posted by christak
How does Handango do it? They are giving away free app's every week through the end of the year and don't need a credit card number... I'm sorry that I'll miss out on the freebie, but I'm not typing in a credit card number... Full name or address wouldn't be a problem, but a credit card is asking too much for this IMHO...
Handango managed to negotiate freebies with small software publishers, which is an entirely different thing than large book publishers. The latter often won't release ebooks without some DRM.

Of all companies to trust your credit card with, I think I put eReader high up on the list. They've been around forever (previously known as Peanut Press and Palm Digital Media), and have had a very good reputation for those years. Now if only they released a fully VGA-aware version of their reader so it doesn't need any third-party hack...

--janak
 
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