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Originally Posted by stonetools
Er, No. DRM is important only to the techie 1 per cent. To the 99 per cent f customers price discounts etc. will be far more important
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Er, No. DRM isn't important at all to the techie 1 per cent. It disappears 30 seconds after the book is downloaded.
But it is
really important to the other 99% who can't borrow a book from the public library, read an epub they've bought in the mistaken impression that all ebooks are equal (for example a freebie/cheapie from BN) or decide to buy a Nook or a Kobo replacement and find out that their entire library just became a collection of ones and zeros. They're the 99% who are going to get really pissed off at whoever decided to impose DRM in the first place.
In addition there are plenty of people who might not know how to remove DRM but who are aware of it, and the issues it led to in the music world, and will know who to blame.
At the moment it doesn't matter to the 1% where a book is available or in what format, but it matters to the 99%. If the publishers had sat down and figured out a way to permanently tie their readers to their perceived biggest problem they probably couldn't have come up with a better way to do it than DRM.