Thread: Charlie Stross: Publishers "Cutting their own throats"
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Old 12-13-2011, 08:25 PM   #139
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
You forgot the most important reason why the Apple doesn't sell any books --- their DRM hasn't been cracked yet. It seems almost as if they want their bookstore to fail, it makes no sense whatsoever. If they just quietly leaked a solution their sales would go up 100 fold. They want to fail on purpose, the whole excercise was just to help introduce agency pricing for the publishers?
Although it might make some difference at the margins, I don't think that many people strip DRM. I'm not even sure how many people know that e-books have DRM.
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