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ITunes and other such companies are starting to sell music w/o DRM and maybe one day it'll happen with ebooks. But I think it's a bit harder for companies to be willing to remove DRM for ebooks than they are for music.
DRM'ed music files hurt sales. For those who don't want to purchase a song because it's DRM'ed can easily find the song that is compatible with their player (since most support mp3 format) w/o DRM illegally. However, it is pretty hard to find a copy of an ebook that isn't DRM'ed. Most people will either end up accepting the DRM and buy the ebook or end up buying the paper book instead. There isn't likely to be a loss of sales to drive the publishers from removing DRM like what I believe is happening in the music industry.
But I do hope that one day ebooks will have a single format and DRM's aren't so restrictive. I know.... just dreaming=)
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