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Originally Posted by Krytes
The claim is always that books (music/videos/games) HAVE to be DRMed, or else they'll just be pirated. In the case of books, I don't think that this makes much sense. Digitizing a paper book for free is possible, but it is quite time-consuming and extremely tedious. Given the choice, I would always choose to pay for a book that the publisher has digitized for me, but who would pay to rent deliberately crippled software?
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Whether most people who can afford a $15 novel and who can buy it simply from Amazon or B&N would go to the trouble of pirating the book is one question.
Whether students would copy a non-DRM'd textbook that costs $140 is a no-brainer: almost all of them would if it meant that they didn't have to spend the money. You can see that from the responses to this thread alone. (And of course this is even more the case when you keep in mind that students may have to buy $1,000 worth of textbooks in a semester.