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Originally Posted by stonetools
Of course, ALL booksellers use DRM.
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No they don't.
I don't buy DRM-locked ebooks. And I have no shortage of books to buy. I buy from O'Reilly, Baen, BVC, Smashwords, BeWrite, and various other publishers. Without DRM.
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I'm beginning to think that you guys are in AMAZON'S pay.
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I own a Sony PRS-505. I've never bought an ebook from Amazon in my life. Or from Sony, for that matter. So much for that theory.
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Originally Posted by Joe Minton
DRM does provide some protection and, if I had to 'give' my writing away, well -- I probably wouldnt do much of it. And, arrogance aside, the reader would be the loser.
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No it doesn't.
The example I always use:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has never been released as an official ebook (the author likes paper). It was, however, out on the darknet
before its official release. Another example: I just bought
Science and Sanity, which was
finally released as an ebook a few days ago. If I wanted to take that route, I could have had it, in several formats, off any number of torrents a year or more ago. People who want illicit ebooks will get them if someone has to scan the physical books.
DRM doesn't stop the pirates from copying any book they want. Go look at the torrent tracker of your choice for proof. It only enforces device lock-in so the honest people have to buy their library all over again if they want to switch to a different device (say, a Kindle instead of a Nook) and leaves them out in the cold entirely if the authentication provider chooses not to continue supporting their format, or just goes under. DRM does not benefit authors. DRM does not benefit readers. It benefits
only those people who want readers to use their device instead of a competitor's. Those people are neither the authors nor the readers.
People who will steal your books were never your customers in the first place. Screwing over the people who
are your customers to make life marginally more difficult (if that) for people who are not your customers is not a route to business success.