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danskmacabre · 05-23-2013, 07:06 PM

I just don't buy DRM'd books... ever.
It's a bit of a pain sometimes when I want a book and I find it's DRM'd, but I just don't want to encourage that sort of thing.

It does force me to branch out my tastes in reading material anyway and find new authors. There's quite a few places that sell DRM free ebooks now although It's mostly new authors and of course the usual sources for free ebooks like Gutenberg etc..

If DRM is generally removed from ebooks, I would be spending probably several $100 a year on books.
As it stands atm publishers get next to nothing from me, or at least the ones who have DRM on their ebooks.
Previous to owning an ereader, I was regularly buying pbooks, I don't do that anymore.

I think this is the best way of stopping DRM on ebooks.

05-23-2013, 07:06 PM	#45
danskmacabre Guru Posts: 733 Karma: 3593438 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Glo. Galaxy Tab S 8.4	I just don't buy DRM'd books... ever. It's a bit of a pain sometimes when I want a book and I find it's DRM'd, but I just don't want to encourage that sort of thing. It does force me to branch out my tastes in reading material anyway and find new authors. There's quite a few places that sell DRM free ebooks now although It's mostly new authors and of course the usual sources for free ebooks like Gutenberg etc.. If DRM is generally removed from ebooks, I would be spending probably several $100 a year on books. As it stands atm publishers get next to nothing from me, or at least the ones who have DRM on their ebooks. Previous to owning an ereader, I was regularly buying pbooks, I don't do that anymore. I think this is the best way of stopping DRM on ebooks. Last edited by danskmacabre; 05-23-2013 at 07:08 PM.