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Originally Posted by Klim Chugunkin
The publishers will overcharge for ebooks and infest them with DRM as long as enough people are happy to oblige and take it up the pipe. The only way to change the current situation is to stop buying such books. That's what I've done.
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What I said above, except for you said it much shorter. I've always been a bit wordy.
I did notice via backlist books that a couple of ebooks I downloaded from less than reputable sites by an author are available via smashwords in multiformat for $5. I deleted my books and I'll be picking them up and selling my paperbacks as soon as I get some spare cash. I'm cool with buying un-DRM'd books at reasonable prices.
I think most people that do e-books haven't experienced DRM gone haywire like me. I'm the family techy of sorts and I get called on to help people when they have trouble.
I think most people haven't seen an online store shut down, haven't seen someone lose DRM'd iTunes content, haven't had to use a crack on someone's legit program just to make it work right. Once you've experienced this kind of stuff a few times you tend to start shunning DRM as much as possible. Most of those people, admittedly, don't go as far as I do (I don't like even "friendly" or "reliable" DRM like Kindle or Steam), but still.