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01-31-2013, 07:54 PM | #18 |
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It's sounding more and more like someone is thinking of $10 worth of DRM to "protect" a $5 book.
Seriously, how expensive will this "universal" DRM be? |
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With the appropriate tool and the right version of iTunes, the iBooks DRM can be removed. But for details, of course, you'll need to look elsewhere.
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$0.22 on a $0.99 ebook or even on a $1.99 ebook is a hefty percentage. DRM: Just say no. |
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02-01-2013, 04:48 AM | #21 |
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Oh for a DRM free universe, not going to happen though.
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02-01-2013, 08:26 AM | #22 |
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Thanks for everyone's thoughts - I haven't had a lot of time to follow the DRM stuff recently, but I didn't think I had missed that big of a change.
She's delusional, and what kills me is she's wasting grant money trying to sell us the beta to vaporware, and according to her, she's had 3 takers in our industry. Only 1 has turned her down (well, now 2, including us). |
02-01-2013, 08:47 AM | #23 |
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Universal DRM is laughable. Trying to get competing companies to share tech? Not likely. It isn't in their best interest. Like others have said, the closest we'll get is if one form of DRM completely crushes the competition and the others basically disappear, or if you count streaming. Streaming really is a bit of a misnomer, because they all use different forms of DRM, just the end user doesn't really notice.
And I don't think she's delusional, just really a salesperson. I work with them all day long at my job, and they will lie their ass off to make a sale. Anything that needs to be said to make sure the sale goes through will be said. I frequently see orders come in that promise delivery for product that we do not have in stock, and have to be shipped before we're even expecting to receive it (not to mention, all the work we have to do on it when it comes in). Last edited by Hellmark; 02-01-2013 at 08:51 AM. |
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The problems of that shrink into insignificance besides the practical problems of getting a single DRM standard adopted throughout the universe. Consider the difficulties of agreeing a standard with someone a billion lightyears away!
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02-01-2013, 10:27 AM | #25 |
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Whatever happened to watermarking? JK Rowling had it right!
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02-01-2013, 11:26 AM | #27 | |
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Trouble is : None of the big retailers DO manage watermarks, and thus need to "upgrade" the ebook's protection to full encryption based DRM to be in compliance with the Publisher's expressed need of "copyright protection". But most smaller e-retailers DO manage Watermarks, with success. |
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02-01-2013, 11:35 AM | #28 |
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Or so she claims. Any bets on whether or not she'd give you their contact info as references? Cuz any (legitimate) business should be ready to give current customers as references.
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02-02-2013, 11:10 AM | #29 |
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I suspect it will eventually happen, probably about the time DRM-free books tend to dominate and the cost of DRM becomes too much to bother with. It will probably be when both major formats (Adobe & Amazon) successors (KF9 & EPUB4?) are getting ready for replacement. At that point, the publishers and vendors can do something like the cell-phone CDMA/GSM sunset with LTE as the replacement. One format/DRM to rule them all! But only after no one cares anymore. Call it 15-20 years from now.
Most people have too short a horizon on questions like this. Big systems move very slowly. CDMA was one of the first cell-phone multiplexing schemes. My 1-year-old phone still uses it. Since all of my phones have been New England Telephone, etc., all of them have been CDMA. That's 15 years. Regards, Jack Tingle |
02-04-2013, 12:47 PM | #30 |
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Apple's DRM has been cracked but it requires an older version of iTunes.
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