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Originally Posted by stonetools
Most authors, publishers and booksellers disagree. They see the figures, they have the expertise and above all they have the responsibility to make these decisions. I'll go with them over an interested amateur who isn't in the business and who thinks he knows better than the experts. Sorry.
You can spend your money how you like. In the meantime, there has been a sharp rise in the purchase of ebooks by average readers who don't care anything about DRM. I think the publishers care a lot more about that , than the theories of the digerati.
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Pardon me for asking, but....If you want to go with the publishers over the interested amateur (Appeal To Authority), why are you even bothering to discuss this on this forum? You aren't going to change our minds without verifiable facts, you have no explanation as to why DRM is an advantage to consumers. You just call us an extremist name (digerati). (To the local gang here, imaging calling the writer of the Red yarns as a digerati.)
Of course I'll spend my money as I please. But as a reminder of how snarled your "facts" are, let me ask you the following questions.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
In the meantime, there has been a sharp rise in the purchase of ebooks by average readers who don't care anything about DRM.
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How did you "experts" arrive at the fact that the purchasers didn't buy a DRM'ed book and strip off the DRM? What percent did and what percent didn't? And how did they measure it?
It seems to me that those would be very important numbers for analysis for both sides of the argument.