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Originally Posted by HarryT
I entirely agree with you, Lemurion. Clearly the way to encourage publishers that DRM is unnecessary is to boost the sales of DRM-free books. Pirating DRM-protected books, as balok suggests, will do nothing other than to confirm the view of those publishers that DRM is necessary to fight the pirates.
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The problem is with the average person. The average person will plug his/her device to the computer, fire up the program, purchase the ebook, download it, install it on the portable reading device, and then read away not worrying about the ebook on some future device. Most people don't reread books. Heck, we're lucky some even read them once. These people won't stop buying DRM ebooks as they don't see a problem with them. I know my mother (for example) would not have an issue with DRM as along as she would be able to read her book. THough for some of us, it's not just a matter of being able to have our ebooks DRM free, it's also about being able to reformat. Let's say we purchase an ebook that has poor formatting, wide margins, font size too small, line spaces after every paragraph, etc. We could then take the ebook, reformat it, and pop out a copy that we'd enjoy more.