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Originally Posted by stonetools
Look , the success of Baen is a wonderful thing, but so long as its the ONLY significant success, well, its a hard thing to bet a whole industry, that supports millions of authors and related personnel , on a model that hasn't enjoyed widespread success. Mobileread forum supporters don't have that responsibility, so its easy for them to blithely say, "Leap by faith into the dark. The landing won't be so bad!".
And this over something-DRM- that is more of an annoyance than anything else and can changed to allay the most serious concerns of the digerati.
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We're not suggesting anyone leap in the dark. We have given examples that show that DRM is unnecessary and costly, and possible harmful to sales.
We've given data from the music industry, and data from the publishing industry.
DRM is only an annoyance to me because I can strip it. To those who can't or won't, it may become much more than an annoyance.
There are no changes that can be made to DRM that will make it significantly less annoying and risky to consumers.
DRM doesn't stop large scale sharing
If it has any effect on small scale sharing, this is insignificant.
DRM costs publishers money
Dropping DRM doesn't lead to reduced sales.
You haven't given one shred of evidence to support your assertion that publishers are wise to keep DRM. While mentioning at every opportunity that others' statements are only their opinion (whether true or not), you yourself have not given anything except opinion.
Please give some hard data, or admit you have none.