One above said he would skip my books with DRM. That is alright, but he could buy a nice used paper back or hardbound copy that he can transfer anywhere he wants, for anywhere from $4.00 to a good bit more.
And friends, one reason I don't publicize my name here is I don't want MR frequenters mad at me. On my own site, I am much more politic. Here I let my hair down. I come here to check the pulse of the fervent, the aficionado.
About security, about DRM, about people.
If you look about you will see locks, gates, grills, alarms, etc., everywhere. There is a reason for that. DRM goes along with that.
And finally I will challenge something that many of you have said that I feel is wrong. That is about whether DRM is effective and if it stops "theft."
I will give you an estimate and that is all we can really do, that for 92% of the eBook reading public, DRM is totally effective, and that is where I make my money. People get their eReader, they download their book, read it, and move on with their life. Maybe sometime years in the future they will wish to reread 10% of the books they have already read. They don't have time to worry about having a different eReader. This is the normal reader.
Plus I will estimate that of the 8% remaining people, we can divide that into 5% that never buy a DRM book, ignore it, or more than likely get it from somewhere else, and 3% that buy a DRM book, and then de-DRM it, and do all sorts of things with it.
Further on those numbers, I will say that doesn't count the "dabbler" someone that one time or even a few times does something nefarious with DRM or pirating, or borrowing, etc. I remember swiping a cookie or two when I was a kid.
Realize that the MR crowd is very special.