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Originally Posted by Catlady
It seems to me totally unrealistic to expect readers to rise up and boycott DRM-ed books. Books are not fungible. If I want to read Anne Perry's latest, I'm not content to substitute some other author's non-DRM-ed mystery for it--I want to read Anne Perry, and that's that. Why should I deprive myself when I can easily overcome the annoyance of DRM?
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I pondered this question myself when drm removal software first became available.
I decided to buy. I just don't see any boycott of DRMed ebooks actually gaining enough adherents to have any measurable effect on ebook sales, not when the vast majority of ebook buyers have yet be bitten hard by DRM.
I hopeful that in the next five years or so the publishers will come to their senses, and understand that DRM is only costing them money. I'd expect that without DRM they could get a 80%/20% split on income from retailers.