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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Well I missed the part where Baen was taking over the publishing world and making large profits. Not saying they have to be to by "getting it right" but if they aren't then something is possibly wrong with the theory that DRM is totally bad for the companies that use it.
Helen
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That's a pretty tough case to make when comparing mega-companies to something like Baen. It's not like Sony, Apple, and Amazon were small before they waded into the waters of ebooks and readers. And two of them pre-date DRM, while the other's primary business was unrelated to DRM before ebooks.
DRM had nothing to do with their success. It also says nothing about the viability of DRM-free publishing.
Currently, all major publishers use DRM. They were major publishers before DRM existed, as well. So again, DRM has nothing to do with them being major players. And since they DRM their content, it also says nothing about what their numbers would be like if they didn't DRM.
This study, however, suggests their numbers might improve.