08-14-2012, 03:19 PM | #16 |
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08-14-2012, 03:43 PM | #17 |
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Here's a Spider Dog with the correct number of legs
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08-14-2012, 06:01 PM | #18 |
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08-15-2012, 01:55 PM | #19 |
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Sounds like some pieces of writing about Linux done by MS. It's called FUD tactics.
Oh hell I'd be so interrsted in reading the authors answers to that... |
08-17-2012, 12:23 AM | #20 | |
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08-17-2012, 08:45 PM | #21 | ||
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As someone whose eBook reading is mostly via Overdrive, I am all for DRM. I realize it is a low fence, and that millions of people around the world jump over fences, whether digital or physical, every day. I don't see that as an argument against either physical fences or DRM. If DRM was more effective, perhaps Hatchette would feel comfortable licensing their eBooks to libraries. Just like high fences, DRM will never be 100 percent. This is good for people who have what I consider a legitimate need to pirate, such as those in dictatorships without freedom to read. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 08-17-2012 at 08:48 PM. |
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08-17-2012, 10:49 PM | #22 |
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I dislike when any company (particularly companies without moral components) attempt to restrict their employees' actions outside of the workplace.
Hachette has every right to suggest to its authors that selling to competitors that choose not to use DRM might make it harder to sell their own Hachette books with DRM. I don't believe it's right, on the other hand, to require that in their contracts. I belong to a reader' email list that also includes a lot of romance authors. I don't know if it's specific to the genre, but so many of them are so incredibly naive about business in general. Specific to this conversation, they have these women all wound up about DRM and piracy, but when you try to pin them down to what any of it actually means, they can only say "that's what my publisher, editor, whoever told me." People need to make informed decisions. Maybe it really is in their best interest to sign with Hachette and refuse to sign with other companies that don't use DRM. But what happens when 5 or 6 years from now they want to release their own old backlist on Smashwords? Oops, sorry, I know you got your rights back, but you can't do that?! But to be fair to Hachette, this behavior is certainly not specific to the publishing industry. I work for one of those really big financial businesses, and you should see the emails I get telling me what I (dumb little peon that I am) should believe about our politics and who to vote for and what measures to back....it's insulting and annoying. |
08-18-2012, 02:46 AM | #23 | |
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Kris has added this type of language to her list of absolute deal-breakers. If present in a contract and unable to be negotiated away, don't sign contract. |
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08-18-2012, 05:55 AM | #24 | |
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I left for holidays forgetting to get some books. Oh, well, i can use my phone to download the books. Except that drm would prevent opening the books on my e-reader... As i lacked ADE to download the books and authorize the reader. So I got a book without drm, no problem. |
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08-18-2012, 02:55 PM | #25 | |
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There are plenty of great authors who are willing to publish without DRM. I will be certainly glad to not buy authors who chose to publish with Hachette and DRM-cripple their books; there are plenty of quality choices I can happily substitute. Authors, please don't fall for this BS. |
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08-18-2012, 03:08 PM | #26 |
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08-18-2012, 03:28 PM | #27 | |
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Instances of STDs and unwanted pregnancy are considerably higher among victims of "abstinence only" education than those who actually get real, informative, not-driven-by-ideology education on the subject. |
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08-18-2012, 03:30 PM | #28 |
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That's the problem right there. Publishers (not only for books, but games and movies as well) need to realise that their goal should not be to stop people from "pirating" their work, it's to get people to buy it. And those two are only superficially related.
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08-18-2012, 03:31 PM | #29 |
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I don't care about DRM one way or the other. It doesn't affect my reading.
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08-18-2012, 05:54 PM | #30 | |
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I don't know about games and movies, but it seems to me that the effect of piracy in music has been for the price of recordings to, after inflation, go down while the prices of live performances increase. The live performance options for authors are limited. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 08-18-2012 at 06:02 PM. |
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