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Like it or not, the Project Management Institute created a cash cow for the Project Management profession much like the IT industry and their certifications. You pay to play, and in this case, you keep paying and pay more. These updates keep the cash flow going for PMI and the supporting industry who make money helping you get your coveted PMP certification. Having been in the game since the 4th Edition, I have seen mostly happy-to-glad changes. In the 6th Edition, PMI has gone out of their way to make the text difficult to read with a number of "technologies" to prevent copying. On the digital version you can download from PMI if you are a member, has a "Not For Distribution, Sale, or Reproduction" watermark across every page. That is extremely distracting but wait, there is more. No printing or, copying text either. For educators like myself, that is frustrating when you need to update your instructional material. The hard copy I received from Amazon, besides have different content (The PMI digital download comes with Agile Practice Guide while the Amazon version come with Standard for Project Management), has grey pages and micro printing on every page to prevent, you guessed it, copying. That makes it harder to read. I understand PMI's concerned for protecting their copyrighted material and maintain cash flow, but as a general reader, all the watermarks/gray pages make this book distracting and difficult to read. That gets PMI a 1-star. Content wise, it is pretty much happy to glad changes. Okay, I'm glad Time management is now Schedule Management and Human Resource Management is now Resource Management and you now Monitor Stakeholders and not Control Stakeholders. Adding the "Standard for Project Management" to the document is redundant and stupid.