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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I am not for or against DRM. I am inclined to think it is necessary at present, but what do I know?
I don't see a lot of commercial success stories for publishers/vendors who have gone DRM free and the majority of the ones who use DRM seem to at least stay in business.
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Baen is the poster child for anti-DRM success.
Samhain Press, Dreamspinner, Angry Robot, and Wildside Press all seem to be doing fine. They're not big-name publishers, but they're actively growing. A company doesn't need to become a billion-dollar corporation--especially in the span of a handful of years--to be successful.
Several of the mega-companies who use DRM just got slapped by the DOJ for collusion and price-fixing, because apparently their business model wasn't working well enough for them to be comfortable staying within the law.
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I realise music venders have done okay without DRM, but I do not think most publishers will do it anytime soon.
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It'll be a while, but they'll drop DRM--because they hate Amazon. As long as their books are DRM'd, their Amazon customers aren't going to leave for other stores. (I find this hilarious. The publishers don't like Amazon's success, but they don't want to remove their content from the store. It's like they think Amazon should run itself for *their* benefit, rather than for Amazon's profit.)