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Originally Posted by frahse
On the other hand most all the significant authors and many other authors including myself and most if not all significant publishers will continue to sell their wares with DRM in one form or another. Sometimes the authors might give away samples or even sell series without DRM for advertising is something most of us understand.
The majority of the public will buy the DRM protected books.
That is the way it is, and will be in the foreseeable future.
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I agree:
1) Big name authors do not care either way, presence or lack of DRM does not impact them in any significant way. So most of them will not fight it.
2) Big Media Publishers have always believed in copy protection/drm/etc, and show no indication that they will ever change. So they will fight to keep it.
3) Most e-book readers do not ever have any problems when they have DRM books, and just like the speed, ease and convenience of buying their books from the store built in to their device. So they will not fight it.
4) The only person that is REALLY hurt by DRM is the new indy author who has the option to release DRM free should they so choose, so not very many of them will care. There will be the vocal ones (i.e. this thread) but not enough to make a real difference.
So in the end you have almost no one fighting it, and the big money players fighting full force to keep it. It is here to stay for the foreseeable future. The only way that will change is if DRM becomes more oppressive to the READERS such that they are mobilized against it. DRM is transparent enough that, that is not likely to happen.
The key place where I disagree with frahse is that I feel I, and I have shown clearly my reasons (which none have contested) that DRM hurts the new indy authors, and they are better off with out it. I do not see how DRM helps anyone, but I do see that the big media houses think it does.