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Originally Posted by crossi
No one said anything about being unwilling to pay for their ebooks or that they want to distribute copies to all and sundry. I've invested several thousand dollars in my ebooks and the idea that all that money would just go poof if I switched readers is more than a little disturbing. I don't have thousands to spare to rebuy them all. Authors might be concerned about being ripped off but so am I. I paid for them I should be able to keep them.
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The real problem is that everyone here is always full of good intentions . They focus on the inconveniences (real and imagined) of DRM and blithely dismiss the concerns of authors and publishers, apparently not really caring that they want said authors and publishers to take the kind of gamble with their livelihoods which they themselves wouldn't take with THEIR livelihoods.
Now your problem is a serious one(your library would not go poof, btw, regardless of what is said here)
Whats needed is an easy migration path from one DRM scheme to another and the publishers and booksellers deserve all the calumny visited on them here if they do not provide one. That, however, is an argument for better DRM- not no DRM