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Originally Posted by stonetools
Around these parts, MidnightBlue, anti-DRMism is kind of a religion. Its THE most important ebook issue.
In any case, Charles Stross argues that the publishers made a big mistake by instituting DRM, because Amazon gained a stranglehold on the Ebook market, mainly through DRM :
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Apparently, someone listened, since Tor, an arm of the big publisher Macmillan, decided to sell its books DRM free and open a store. Frankly, I doubt this will make much difference , because as you noted, most buyers don't care about DRM, but we'll see. |
A religion? A common topic over the past few days. Well I hope that I can avoid baptism. How does DRM lock one into Amazon? I have a lot of non Amazon books on my Kindle, either emailed direct to the Kindle or put on using Calibre. I have a lot of Gutenberg Project books loaded via Calibre.