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Hey! Hey! Remember when Pottermore was in the works (right before it was opened up to beta testers) and they promised ONE ebook format that would work on any reader??? What happened to that? Maybe they discovered it's harder than they thought, even with all the money and might of Potter behind them? I guess that was the DRM scheme described below:
>>The DRM scheme proposed was the least obnoxious form. It allows you to move eBooks you buy to a new device without having to depend on the DRM servers of a particular bookseller or having to remember what credit card number you used back when you bought the books. It simply puts your name on the books you buy.<<
But I just took the survey, and I don't see anything about such a DRM scheme. I only see questions about what bookstores I buy from and so on. So they are DECIDING ON FORMAT/BOOKSTORE after all.
And a question about "social DRM/watermarking:" how is that going to help you move your book from a Kindle to a Nook?
Anyway, I think the survey is really really stupid. The Potter books are so widely read, that I imagine the results will resemble a plain old market study (eg, what are the most popular ebookstores overall).
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