Buy your legal license, then download it from the high seas sans drms.

I've been able to strip the Kobo DRM out of a couple of book bundles using Calibre. Haven't bought this one yet, but I'd assume there wouldn't be a problem.

Yes and yes. They use a couple of different drm schemes and you might need an adobe digital editions login for anything using the older one. The newer one doesn’t need anything special.

@YurkshireLad I hadn't noticed that. I just checked the other book bundles and didn't see any restrictions so I'm guessing it has something to do with this bundle coming through Kobo which would be odd since Kobo is a Canadian company.

Could you use a vpn and buy it?

Not in Canada, it’s not.

Y’arrr… there’s an answer to that.

And for those of us who can afford it, the bundle is a great way to loosely support the actual author (or his estate, in this case). No shade thrown at any book sharing because that’s what libraries are for.

Isn't that just the metadata?

Same but I still prefer eBook/PDF quite a lot. I like it for my text books so I can easily make copies and not carry as much. But paper feels more at home for fun reading.