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Originally Posted by JSWolf
OK, here's the thing. you say my buying eBook with DRM tells the publisher that DRM is OK to use. Now you say I can buy other then eBooks. So if I don't buy any eBooks, I'm then telling publishers that eBooks don't sell.
So what's the middle ground in this case? Do we tell publishers that eBooks don't sell or do we tell them DRM is OK?
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The "middle ground" here is opening your eyes to the millions of high-quality non-DRM ebooks available, and not disdaining them because they don't come with a big-publisher marketing campaign that labels them as good.
It takes more effort to find them; whether that's worth it to you depends on how much effort you're willing to spend to communicate with publishers. If you think DRM is non-problematic enough that you're happy to encourage it, go ahead & keep buying DRM'd books and treating them however you feel is best. If you think DRM *matters,* that it's important to get rid of it, stop paying companies who use it.
The idea of "but then I'll have to read something I might not like!!" is ridiculous. If your taste in books is so limited that only DRM'd editions could possibly keep you entertained, your opinions about the future of literature are irrelevant.
If you can't suss out from a blurb and few pages of sample whether you expect to enjoy a book, you're not competent to discuss the value or quality of literature. If you don't have *TIME* to spend to decide that... you've decided convenient purchases are more important to you than eliminating DRM.
For a lot of people, convenience trumps a lot of other issues. But don't try to convince people that you're anti-DRM when what you really mean is "I want one less inconvenience in my shopping." In other words: Put your money where your mouth is. Support the authors and companies who act in ways you approve of, and stop supporting the ones you think are unethical or too greedy.