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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Wouldn't it be in the authors and
publishers interest to adopt a DRM that would be common to all?
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Possibly, but I don't know if, say Amazon, charges the publisher for the DRM or not. They own it so they don't have to pay Adobe's $0.22 per book (plus the costs of running Content Server) fee/tax, but then again I don't know if any of the places using Adobe's DRM pass that fee on to the publisher or not or just look at it as a cost of doing business.
Maybe the publishers should have setup something similar to what they have for a lot of digital movies now (UltraViolet). With UV there is a record kept through the UV site of what movies you own and then you can view them with the Apps/DRM of various retailers Vudu, B&N, BestBuy, etc. The only problem there is that not all retailers participate (Amazon [although they're rumored to be coming on board], Google and Apple being the big ones) although if they'd done it early enough they might have been able to make it mandatory.