Boy, lots of opinions here.
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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
Exclusivity deals just encourage piracy, IMO. It engenders a *&#!-you attitude in everyone who doesn't have that format.
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I admire your postings and normally agree with you (and share admiration of Kobo). But I do not agree that exclusivity encourages piracy.
Being out-of-print encourages piracy -- not being on this platform or another.
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Originally Posted by EricDP
So I have three choices: - 2. Learn how to break amazon DRM (free, and once I've done it I can apply my skills into the future.)
<snip>Five seconds of googling and I discover that #2 is quite trivial, so now I just need to decide if I won't support this author anymore on moral grounds, or if I'll still buy the books, but break the DRM (which is currently legal in Canada - at least until parliament next sits, at which point I might become a criminal for trying to read the book I bought on the device I bought.) |
I hope I didn't misunderstand you -- are you implying you'd steal a copy of the book, remove the DRM, and then give it away after? Just because the author has signed an "exclusive" deal?
Amazon reports 20% or so of its ebook sales go to customers
who do not own a Kindle. They are reading on iPads, Blackberry's, Macs and PCs. I imagine some are reading on Sony eReaders who have bought the title, removed the DRM, converted to ePub and read on on their Sony eReader.
Authors sign "exclusive" deals with their puiblishers all the time -- often appearing under different imprints around the world, and "not sold" in specific territories as a result. This isn't any different, IMHO.
With tons of stuff to read, and an author chooses a platform you don't want to participate in ... read something else. Or, legitimately buy the thing and read it on the free apps for devices you own (or even move it to your Sony eReader in this case -- which is what I hope you are saying).