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Originally Posted by bwaldron
IMHO, DRM loses/alienates more customers than it "protects" in lost revenue.
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Don't forget: In the absence of DRM (workable or not), many publishers will not produce e-books
at all. If
some customers will buy DRM-set e-books, that's more than
no one buying an e-book at all. So from the publishers' perspective, they're coming out ahead. That's why there is still DRM.
Publishers need to be introduced to better ways of doing it, methods that will get them more customers and make them more money. Otherwise, they can't see a good reason to abandon DRM. (And listening to people on these forums yell "Make those books FREE! Or I'll just steal them" isn't giving them a good reason to give it up...)