Thread: Charlie Stross: Publishers "Cutting their own throats"
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Old 11-29-2011, 08:17 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by carld View Post
I'm not convinced that the general ebook reading public cares that much about DRM. I think they care far more about ebook prices. Agency pricing is really where the Big 6 are setting themselves up for a serious throat cutting.
They won't care until it bites them in the ass. Why do you think it took so long for people to turn against Apple itunes DRM? It takes a while before people start getting burned and get cranky about it.

Over time, you'll have more people wish to move from the Kindle store to something else (or from the itunes store to Kindle, or whatever) and they won't be very keen on re-buying books.

I hadn't thought of DRM being bad for the publishers in this way, but it makes sense. Amazon wants a piece of the publishers' pies.
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