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Originally Posted by AMacD
You have a vote in this great Buckocracy in which we live. Vote with your dollars. Buy from those who don't use DRM. Buy from those who price their books fairly. Buy from independent authors. Buy from BaenBooks, SteveJordan, Cory Doctorow or any others that really support e-books instead of those who are trying to exploit them.
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The problem there is simple. If we vote not to purchase eBooks with DRm, thent he publishers will just think they are a failure and stop making eBooks. And we lose out even more.
Let's say you are a publisher of DRM filled eBooks. People stop purchasing them because they don't want the DRM. Now you don't look at sales and say they don't sell because of DRM. Nope. You look at sales and say they just don't sell. So you give up on eBooks. Who then loses out. Not you the publisher. We the consumer lose out.
What we need to do is still purchase, but let the publishers know we do not want DRM. Even if we didn't purchase eBooks with DRM or the equivalent pBook version, we are still to small a group to have a major enough effect on these books. So the only thing we really can do to not shoot ourselves in the foot is to email the publishers and tell them we don't want DRM.