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Originally Posted by rkomar
It would be interesting to know how much it would affect sales. You say removing support for ADE would reduce post-sale support, but I disagree as they would likely field tons of calls from users who want to know how to read their newly purchased ebooks. I doubt that support would advocate stripping the DRM, as it could leave them open to litigation.
Personally, I don't buy books with DRM, but I can't promise that I never will, so I don't mind paying a few bucks more just in case. Not having support for ADE would not have made me more eager to buy my 902. Also, I doubt that the cost of ADE is borne mostly by the device maker. It would make more sense to build that cost into the books, as the cost to Adobe probably scales with the number of books rather than the number of devices.
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Not to forget members of MR are quite a minority of all users with a PB, and a great many of them
need DRM support because things like Calibre plugins, publishers like BEAN ore BeWrite are totally foreign to them
I also think that license fees for Adobe are mostly payed by publishers who want their books protected, and the reader software is more or less free (apart from development for the individual readers), as they handle it with Adobe Writer and Reader software. Without the free reading software Adobe wouldn't be as known as they are, and there is already reading software for mobilephones, tablets and PC with DRM support available for free, e.g. Aldiko