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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
My absolute blocker is DRM--if it's got DRM, I'm not buying at any price. (Any. I don't download free books with DRM.) This is a matter of principle--I think DRM is broken; I won't be put in a position of maybe committing crimes to get access to my purchases; I believe I won't run out of non-DRM'd reading material.
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Hi, Elfwreck. Interesting point, and I feel like it moves me a bit closer to what I was trying to get at with my original point (and didn't manage to convey).
When trying to figure out what to read, we all have factors that are intrinsic to the book (author, story, genre, previous experience with author, word-of-mouth, etc.) and those that are extrinsic (DRM status, price, publisher, NYT bestseller status, whatever). I think I go more for intrinsic factors, most often author (and authors recommended by authors I admire).
You'd skip a book that you
really want to read, only because of its DRM status? I loathe DRM as well (karma to you for your loathing
), but I think I'm too much of a junkie to not read it anyway (as a library copy, as a DTB, or I'd strip the DRM and accept the consequences for my civil disobedience.)