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Originally Posted by stonetools
The average user doesn't give a damn about DRM. If they did, we would see rapidly falling sales of ebook sales and ereader devices. Instead we see rapidly RISING sales of ebooks and ereaders. And the most popular device? The Amazon Kindle, which has a proprietary format AND the most restrictive DRM. So all of the digerati who profess solicitude for the average user, relax: the average user is OK with DRM.
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As long as you buy from the website you are supposed to buy from, DRM is invisible. So if you have a Kindle and only want to buy from Amazon you won't even notice it unless you want to fix the hundreds of spelling mistakes for the next time you want to read it.
It would only be a problem if you wanted to buy from another website because they were cheaper or they had a better formatted ebook (like the Leisure series which are available as properly formatted epubs elsewhere, but only in crappy Topaz format on Amazon).
DRM would stop you from doing that, but nothing else. Even then it's often easier to find and download a DRM-removed-and-converted version than to buy it and do it yourself.
I can understand why Amazon would want DRM to stop people from buying from the wrong websites, but I don't really see what's in it for the publishers when it means they have to refuse a sale. Once someone finds out how easy it is to get free books how likely are they to return to paying for them?