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Originally Posted by oj829
OTOH, introduce enough "friction" with new DRM in the free marketplace, and IF retailers decide that the support costs per book are putting them in the red, they will revolt, and they will NOT get a middle finger from the publishers like nerdy librarians do.
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Libraries are important to publishers as a public forum. If not economically, certainly as advertising for their product. If this were untrue, they would not offer their books through them. Simple economics. This does not mean they need to play nice (hence the 'middle finger').
If you were a publisher looking to make changes to your protection scheme that would require changes to e-readers or e-reader software, what better place to start than libraries. The companies that produce e-readers want to be able to advertise that they are compatible with libraries, so let the public do the work for you. In the mean time, you are not annoying the retailers. When products have adapted, then make the DRM scheme universal and the retailers will thank you for it.