[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by stonetools

THE ANSWER YOU GAVE DOES NOT ANSWER MY QUESTION.

Yes it does. Your question:

Originally Posted by stonetools

Can we assure that writers and publishers can make a good living in a post DRM world?

Note that this question implies that writers and publishers can make a good living in a DRM world.

What you have labelled as my answer:

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The music industry experience tells us that dropping DRM does not seem to hurt digital sales.

Add in a reasonable assumption that having DRM or no DRM on digital sales will not affect traditional sales, leads us to the conclusion:

Writers and publishers can make a good living if they drop DRM on ebooks.


Now, this may or may not be true, since it relies on the implicit assumption in your original question. But that's a fault in your question, not my answer.