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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
We expect that different *types* of products to be marketed separately.
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Elfwreck, I think you make some very good points - although I would be inclined to argue that, in general, there is a price advantage to ebooks that may offset some aspects. I think it is past time that sellers accepted that ebooks are not paper books and began to deal with them more particularly. Part of the problem may be people like myself, software developers, that are used to operating in a particular way and just sort of assume that everyone else understands.
Mind you, you do have to be a little bit careful about what you wish for. For example DVDs are also DRM protected, but people continue to buy them. This Wikipedia
article includes a rather disturbing possibility:
In principle, this approach allows licensors to "revoke" a given player model (prevent it from playing back future content) by omitting to encrypt future title keys with the player model's key. In practice, however, revoking all players of a particular model is costly, as it causes many users to lose playback capability. ...