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Originally Posted by Poppaea
Actually I am not sure the royalties go to the authors, I think they go to ADE for providing this DRM stuff.
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Perhaps the appropriate term for the $0.22 charged by Adobe is licensing fee? I would assume authors still get a slice of the ebook pie as negotiated in their contract (hopefully much bigger than $0.22).
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Originally Posted by Poppaea
The idea is to make it hard for people to copy books and share them with friends so more books should sell. The reality is, it does not work like this.  |
Unfortunately true. It's much easier to just download a pirated copy outright than jump through hoops with DRM. Amazon's implementation is probably the most hassle-free of the bunch but it ties you to the Kindle reader (either software or hardware). Oh well, at least it's not as closed as Apple's iBooks.