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Originally Posted by JSWolf
OK, let say everyone who buys eBooks takes your advise. Lets say 90% of the eBooks we buy now have DRM. So we do it your way and the publishers then say that eBooks are a flop since the sales of pBooks has just risen significantly while the sales of eBooks have dropped significantly. Al that does is get us screwed because now the publisher won't be removing DRM since eBooks don't sell well enough.
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Ten years ago, that might've been the case; now, ebook sales would shift to indie and self-pub books. There's now a solid market for ebooks and customers will buy from whatever's available. BPHs aren't going to walk away from that market, now that it exists.
It's a fairly moot point... there's not going to be any millions-of-customers movement to insist on the removal of DRM. But a solid and vocal opposition to DRM that keeps (1) telling new ebook customers that no, they don't *have* to stick to a single ereader or lose their books and (2) reminding authors that they're losing sales, can have some impact on the way the market works.