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Originally Posted by NatCh
Let's throw one more factor into the mix: DRM actually adds to the cost of a book. Whatever DRM scheme is chosen will have to either be developed in house or contracted out and licensed, for both the books and the reading software. I've heard somewhere from a person or two involved in the industry that the cost for that is not as small as it might seem it ought to be, and it's a fixed cost per unit.  |
It also creates the need for a helpdesk. See which forum on the Mobipocket forums has the most messages. The Webscriptions forum on Baens Bar has much less messages and usually about bugs in the books where the production process failed.
BTW "publishers are a conservative lot" is from Jim Baen.