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If it is; "If you want DRM you have to use ours" and only ours works on Kindles, and only Kindles, there is not a lot of choice for most authors and publishers, when working with Amazon. (Or Sony, or Kobo, or ...) Luck; Ken |
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06-15-2013, 11:06 AM | #63 |
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Doesn't DRM have to die before it can haunt us?
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My understanding is that the push for DRM came from the publishers.
When you self-publish, you're given an opportunity to use or not to use DRM. |
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Amazon will happily take advantage of the "lock in" benefits that DRM provides when the publisher requires DRM on their products. But they will also sell DRM-free books if the publisher requests their product be DRM-Free (Tor). If that constitutes "forcing" on the part of Amazon ... so be it.
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Amazon isn't consistent in listing which books have DRM or not.
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It is my hope that other publishers will follow Tor's example and not allow the imposition of DRM on their books. If they were to all take such a position Amazon would be restrained from using their proprietary DRM. Luck; Ken Last edited by Ken Maltby; 06-15-2013 at 02:44 PM. |
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If they didn't want it, they wouldn't have it, and they would sell books through stores that didn't apply it. You are twisting things too far to try to end up blaming Amazon here. |
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As to Amazon in particular; It has been suggested that Amazon is in a special position because they own their own DRM and need not pay Adobe or anyone else a per book fee. Do you think they will easily give up any advantage they gain from this situation? While other retailers might give up applying DRM and no longer have to pay such fees for the use of the DRM, Amazon would not have the same incentive. Luck; Ken |
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Not all of them. O'Reilly and Tor are examples who sell their books without DRM. And they do so through Amazon. Amazon doesn't need to be 'restrained' from applying DRM, and publishers are not 'allowing' its 'imposition'. When the publisher wants to use DRM, Amazon applies DRM. When the publisher does not want to use DRM, Amazon does not apply DRM. Quote:
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06-15-2013, 09:41 PM | #73 | |
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If Amazon wanted to require DRM, they could easily do that for all those people. Only give exemptions for the big publishers, but they don't. Does Amazon charge a fee for the DRM? How much money does DRM bring them? Maybe they'd love to get rid of the DRM maintenance and development, but they have to provide it to get the big publishers in. Maybe Amazon knows that most Kindle customers will never use Calibre conversion in order to go buy epubs from Barnes & Noble. |
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Today I read an interesting news about a new kind of DRM.
This kind of DRM will not limit you on any device or app, you can read it anywhere you like. But once it is copied, the words & sentences in the book will differ, even change the meaning it should be. So even getting the copy of the book, you are not able to read it fluently. Maybe in the original book, the man is dead, but in one copy, he is not. That will be interesting. |
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