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Originally Posted by ApK
Smashwords is DRM free and growing, O'Reilly is DRM free and big in their field. Change takes time.
Part of it probably the fact that DRM, as some have pointed out, simply doesn't bother most average consumers...yet.
And others of us, rather than boycotting DRM, simply buy what we want...and strip as needed. And even if all we digerati joined a boycott, there are probably not enough of us yet to make a difference.
When DRM starts to hurt more people, more companies will feel pressure to follow Baen, I think.
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DRM may be the future: But I doubt it. Bestselling authors just have too much to lose to expose themselves in that way. Even a forward thinking author like Stephen King doesn't want to risk it.
Back on post #364, I posted three likely scenarios of what kinds of things could happen if major publishers went DRM free.
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Interestingly, NO ONE responded saying that these scenarios were unlikely. I think people know, deep in their digerati hearts, that bestsellers would be passed around like popcorn if everyone went DRM free,they just don't think it would be all that bad for authors and publishers. Well, in fact, it would be "all that bad".
What's most likely , as I have said elsewhere, is some sort of "subscription " approach where books are streamed while held in the cloud. The last time, I proposed that, the opposition got so hot that a moderator closed the thread
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I guess I have that effect on people.
