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Originally Posted by whitearrow
The real fear for publishers (and authors) should be total obscurity -- nobody paying any attention at all to their book -- neither Amazon nor piracy.
What their real fears are, I couldn't hazard a guess.
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One person can't buy everything. I borrow a huge selection of books every year, and then with a Christmas budget select a few from my favorites and my children's and buy the physical book. I respect the quality and workmanship of a physical book more than an e-book. I also respect the fewer restrictions just based on the nature of it. I would happily pay a HIGHER price for "Big name" authored e-books that had NO DRM, so I could make it really my own. But right now, I refuse to pay $15+ for pretending to "own" a book.
I don't buy very many e-books, and especially not ones with DRM. I've been burned paying full price for a DRM'ed book only to have it arrive without a cover. My jaw figuratively hit the proverbial floor, when after selecting the book and thinking "cool cover", only to have my copy that I paid full price have no cover. There was NOTHING that could be done. just too bad so sad.
If it had no DRM I would have been able to edit everything to my satisfaction. I've bought very cheap books drm free with ugly covers, and the fact that I could make it mine, with my cover and some of them scribble my own name on it. Well, I enjoy those kind better. I hate the locked on kind, and always will.