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Originally Posted by R J Askew
Hmm, forgive me i am just an idiot Englishman, but what is the problem with DRM? are they not there to serve the writer's interests? in which case, what is wrong with that? and as H says above they can be got round by the sound of things. As an author, I would accord amazon a AAA rating for devising a wonderful revolutionary too for tearing down old publishing. But creative work should be paid for should it not? A person who buys a pBook can't give it free so a million people as someone online could. So surely the little author who wants to make a cent as I do needs some bar on his or her work being simply taken as free to anyone who pays a dollar for it. If an author wants free exposure they simply don't opt for DRM. I salute Amazon for allowing DRM. What is the case against it?
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First off, you have to give thanks to Sony who came out with the very first eink reader called the Libre in Japan. Then Sony came out with the PRS-500 in the USA. Both before the K1.
As for DRM, people who are sharing eBooks on the net either know where to get them without DRM or know how to strip the DRM so it's no problem for them. For people who buy eBooks, DRM can be an issue. Let's say you have a Kindle and you've bought 20 eBooks from Amazon. You've read 5 of these eBooks. Now you decide you want a Sony Reader and you've given your Kindle to someone else or sold it. Now you have these 15 unread and 5 read eBooks attached to your Amazon account. But you want to read them using your Sony. But wait, they have DRM. They won't work with your Sony. They won't work with anything but a Kindle or a Kindle app. But you don't want that because you want them in ePub. Now your choices are to buy them in ePub and pay again for them or strip the DRM and convert to ePub.
See, the DRM just bit you in the ass and yes, it left welts.