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Meta seeks to block further sales of ex-employee’s scathing memoir (www.nytimes.com)

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Sarah Wynn-Williams last week released “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,” a book that describes a series of incendiary allegations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior by senior executives during her tenure at the company. Meta pursued arbitration, arguing that the book is prohibited under a nondisparagement contract she signed as a global affairs employee.

haha Streisand effect go brrrr

bookshop.org sells it in both hardcover and e-book

or from Bez-Mart, if you're into that sort of thing

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[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

If it's Adobe it can be made DRM-free relatively easy. It's the first thing I do with every purchase (and legal where I live). Try Calibre (free/libre) or Epubor (paid but more versatile and works better for me).

Amazon has just introduced a policy change that probably makes it much harder (or impossible) to de-DRM stuff bought there, so I'm going to do without the books exclusive to them for the time being.