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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
Mobileread is honestly the only place on the planet I know of that has readers who select what to read on the basis of a lack of DRM.
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It's not, although it may be the only place that speaks about it in those terms.
I know plenty of people who don't buy ebooks from Amazon because "you don't own them, you're just renting them." And people who don't buy ebooks because they don't want to lose them after they have to reinstall Windows, or if they switch from Windows to Mac. They may not know the term "DRM," but they have figured out that most ebook stores sell content they can't rely on.
As a result, because they don't understand how DRM works, they just don't buy ebooks, or only buy rarely, and only from the one or two stores they know they understand.
Which, I suppose, is what the mainstream publishers want: people who buy paper because they understand how it works, and have looked at ebooks & decided they're mostly too complicated.
And I also know of *many* people who don't select what to read on the basis of DRM, but *do* select what to buy--if it's only available with DRM, they'll torrent it instead.
Mobileread's not the only place that brings up "no DRM" as an important feature in ebooks; it's just about the only place that knows how to discuss it coherently.