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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Because it won't. With video games and videos (and even protected music cds) there's no alternatives, many times. You can't fire up the ol' gerbil-powered gaming system and experience the latest games. So the bar before it gets too cumbersome for consumers to put up anymore with is quite high in those cases.
They have to toe the line with books precisely because paper books are still around. I hear even the very latest ones still have physical copies printed. And if ebooks become too cumbersome for people to easily consume, they'll go back to buying those paper books.
But make no mistake; it's a lack of convenience that would eventually drive most ebook readers back to paper. Not "unbreakable" DRM.
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Isn't it the same with ebooks? What do the publishers care if the people buy ebooks or paperbacks; they'll get their money in both cases. I think publishers wouldn't mind making the usage of ebooks so cumbersome that people actually *would* return to paper books.
In my case, if the Big Six would do something like that, I'd be S.O.L with regard to reading any mainstream works. Apart from very few, all of the stuff I read is published by the Big Six or one of their subsidiaries.
It's not really possible to say "It's a free market, so there will be DRM-free publishers", because the Big Six hold the rights to just about any mainstream (fantasy) novel I can think of.