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Originally Posted by BWinmill
mgmueller: you clearly have a larger disposable income than some people. What you do with that income is certainly up to you, even if some of us think that repurchasing a favorite book just because you are using a device based upon a different standard (or the book is no longer available for whatever reason) is a poor financial decision.
By the same measure, please appreciate that some of us don't have that sort of money or are simply more prudent about money. We have no interest in replacing books that we have already purchased because we are using a different device or because the book is no longer available for whatever reason.
Some of the analogies presented don't even make sense to us because they assume that our behaviors are similar to your behaviors. For example: I almost fell over laughing when you mentioned going to the cinema for temporary amusement. I go to the cinema once every few years because spending money in that way is frivolous. Another example: a private library of movies or upgrading with changing standards isn't accepted by everyone either. A lot of people clung on to VHS even after DVDs became popular. (Heck, I just watched a movie on VHS the other day.) These days, a lot of people are clinging onto DVDs even with options like iTunes at their disposal. Then there are people like me, who don't even have a video library. (I have a grand total of four, which were from iTunes gift codes. I would have never purchased them myself.)
As I said earlier, unbreakable DRM wouldn't change much for me. I'm so cheap that I rarely buy new books (e- or p-). Yet I can imagine that many people want to buy books, and either don't have the money or are prudent about how they spend it. When spending 15 minutes to setup a piece of software and spending 5 minutes a year setting up a batch process can save them hundreds or thousands of dollars, they will.
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There isn't much choice but to keep buying DVD's (or Blu-Rays). iTunes isn't really an option for movies because they're only viewable with Apple devices or Apple TV and I believe the DRM is unbreakable. Which is why I don't buy movies or tv shows from iTunes.
I suppose it would be the same for ebooks. I wouldn't buy them if I couldn't break the DRM. I would just buy DRM-Free ebooks or none at all and keep on reading paper books.