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Originally Posted by stonetools
Yet you (and im sure , most people on the forum) still lock your doors. Again, locks WILL stop the casual amatuer. A burglar with a lock pick can easily pick a lock, but then he is a professional-a person who has acquired the special tool and training to break in that way.
Again I think folks on this forum really lose sight of how unaffectedthe average user is by this stuff. 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.
That's a big part of discussions by experts-the ONLY people who are really concerned about DRM
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Just wait until the day she purchases a book from Borders and can't get it to work on her Kindle... Or when she (god forbid) wants to check an ebook out of the library and can't with a Kindle.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
And yet apparently the authors and publishers see such a connection. Guess they don't know their own businesses like you lot.
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If they "knew" their business they'd stop all this BS with trying different methods of when to release ebooks (on release day? 3 months later? 1 year later?) and what to charge for them (hardback price? paperback price?). They're all over the place, trying everything out precisely because they
don't know what works yet.