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Originally Posted by rjmac
There is one sad consequence of DRM'ing books. Charities loose out. When I read pbooks and had finished with them I either gave them to friends or donated them to Charity Shops. I can no longer do that. Instead they rest in my book store library consuming their disk space. Would it not be an idea to enable you to donate a DRM ebooks to a registered charity, and for publishers to allow them to reset the DRM restrictions to enable the charity to resell the book cheaply to raise money for good causes.
Times change - not always for the better.
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This has nothing whatsoever to do with DRM. Why bring that into it? The fact that you can't donate your books to charity is due to the fact that ownership of digital media can't generally be transferred. It has nothing to do with DRM. You can't give your Apple iTunes music to charity either, and they have no DRM.