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Old 03-18-2011, 01:03 PM   #77
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Originally Posted by stonetools View Post
Grandma who just bought a Kindle understands that she can buy books in seconds from Amazon. She's perfectly happy with that and does not know- or even want to know-about sideloading, backing your library up to a computer, transferring ebooks between devices, Calibre, etc, etc.
Quite true. And most people won't be bothered at all by DRM on ebooks.

Until one day they find that the retailer or DRM-provider has moved on to a new system, and they can no longer open their ebooks on new devices.

People with DRMed PDFs have already had this happen to them. Adobe, the DRM provider, is still around, but no longer supports the DRM on their PDFs. There was a six month window in which they could have updated their PDFs to the new scheme, but now that's passed, Adobe says "tough".

Using DRM on ebooks is a storing up a lot of customer problems for the future.
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