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Originally Posted by kennyc
What needs to be laid to rest is you shilling for the publishers.
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I really don't think he's a shill. Publishers don't argue the pros and cons of DRM; they make noise about losses due to piracy and make lawsuit threats.
Plenty of people love Amazon and WalMart and think they're both terrific companies without being in any way affiliated with it. I think he's wrong about DRM, and prone to interesting flaws in his logic, but I don't think he's deliberately trying to prop up a failing business model--I think he thinks it's a valid and successful model.
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DRM needs to go. It had to go in every other digital technology and must in ebooks as well. The dinosaurs must die as they died before.
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It'll take a while in ebooks; publishing has a lot more inertia than other media, and the changes are slower. The indie digital/PoD publishing thing is moving much, much faster than any part of the legacy publishing industry can cope with. I'd feel kinda sorry for them... if they weren't fighting hard to ignore what people actually want to buy.
I feel sorry for Baen; they really need to get their ebooks in more places. I've run across a lot of new ebook readers in the last year or two who don't know Baen exists.