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Originally Posted by HarryT
... or they don't give a damn about it - which I strongly suspect, based on my interactions with "normal" eBook owners, is the case for the typical user, who buys books in the store that's linked to his reader, and has never even heard of "DRM".
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Because the typical user will never get a different reader to discover that it can't open the purchased books?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
"Being burned in the future" is only an issue if you re-read books. My experience is that most people don't. They buy a book, read it, and never read it again. They aren't buying books to keep, or to collect; they're buying them as a form of ephemeral entertainment.
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If you don't re-read them, then why buy and not get them from the library?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Without DRM, most mainstream publishers wouldn't be publishing eBooks. That's a fact. It's not the bookstores who are insisting upon DRM; it's the publishers. If it's a choice between having eBooks published with DRM, and not having them published at all, give me DRM any day.
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That's not a fact, that's an assumption. Publishers didn't invent ebooks. They are being sold because there is a demand. They would be sold even if applying DRM would be illegal.