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Originally Posted by stonetools
The other shoe drops.
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Now you' ll recall when Tor announced it was going DRM free, I said that its not surprising that a Macmillan line was going to do that, since:
1.Macmillan is run by John Sargent,
2.DRM helps Amazon lock in customers according to some,
3.Sargent is willing to go to the line to beat Amazon(See last February's showdown).
Also too, I posted that the BPHs might be willing to do a "Pottermore" and sell direct DRM free to customers as a way of reducing their dependence on Amazon.
Well, lookee here. Tor. com is opening a DRM free book store. Charlie Stross, who swears that publishers "cut their own throats" by letting Amazon impose its own DRM on books, is a big booster of this strategy and swears it will be help smaller retailers . John Scalzi and Cory Doctorow say amen HERE.
Think this will work? |
Why would something like this attract the average consumer? I have never had a problem with DRM, why would I want to go out of my way to avoid it? Why would most people who only had one brand of eReader and who weren't pirates?