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Originally Posted by gmw
Having only some/many available without DRM does not meet with eschew, it seems to me.
Yeah, I know, it's a nit-pick, but "Hey", that's what these threads do isn't it.  |
That's reasonable nitpickery, but here's my answer. Eschew just means 'avoid.' An author doesn't have to be an activist extremist against DRM.
If they are making a career from releasing stuff without DRM, then I'd not fault them if they merely don't refuse to do business with publishers who require it. "You want to give me a million dollar advance on my next book, but you insist on releasing it with DRM? Hey, as long as my check clears."
BTW, for me personally, I have no problem with "the management of digital IP rights" as a concept. I have a problem with DRM systems that impede fair and legitimate uses and needlessly inconvenience consumers or expose them to needless risks.
In a more general sense, I object to seeing time money and effort wasted on something that doesn't work just because it's the way it's always been done. My day job is fixing those kind of broken processes for my cients.
ApK