View Single Post
Old 11-25-2013, 08:18 AM   #8
shalym
Wizard
shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
shalym's Avatar
 
Posts: 3,058
Karma: 54671821
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: New England
Device: PW 1, 2, 3, Voyage, Oasis 2 & 3, Fires, Aura HD, iPad
Quote:
Originally Posted by drjenkins View Post
When has the government done anything concerning DRM they weren't directed to do by private industry?

E-book DRM unification will likely come about the same way that VHS beat Beta. The marketplace will decide the preeminent format and other formats will fade away.

Unfortunately, if Amazon continues to dominate we may eventually be stuck with a proprietary format.

The best we can hope for is that ebook DRM is resolved the way MP3 DRM was resolved. Music is available in multiple formats from multiple vendors without DRM. Several e-book vendors, like O'reilly, have already taken this route.
The difference is that O'reilly is a publisher, not simply a vendor. The same is true for Baen, another source of DRM free multi-format ebooks. It has always been up to the publisher, not the vendor, whether or not to use DRM. Some publishers sell DRM free books via all different vendors--Is there any vendor which forces DRM onto the books?

Shari
shalym is offline   Reply With Quote