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Originally Posted by HappyMartin
I buy mobi drm books, no problem. Have yet to re read a single e book in the year I have been using this technology. Lost one reader and changed my pid at Fictionwise to the Cybook and it was no difficult task. i have become quite lazy and only buy and download mobi pocket books. DRM and otherwise. I have spent enough time reading limited books over and over. I don't need to do that anymore.
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That is your choice, and truth to tell, I doubt that any of us rereads most of the books that we encounter. That being said, many of us have favorite books that we like to reread every couple of years; they might be something we learn something new from every time we read or they might be just plain fun.
Further, what if you liked the book so much you wanted to share the book with your spouse or a friend? Most DRM mechanisms essentially prevent this (Though I think using an RSA style hash, it would be possible to set up a DRM scheme that would allow books to be shared...).
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A movie costs me the same as a book and I dont expect to be able to walk in to any theater in the future and watch the movie again without paying. I am pretty sure that a lot of people will not agree with me on that but I just cannot work up enough energy to care about this issue.
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Buying a ticket to a movie and buying a book are two totally different things. When I buy a ticket to a movie, I am essentially renting a seat in a particular theater for a particular period of time where they are showing the movie. In no way have I bought the movie (and even our terminology acknowledges this since we buy tickets for movies but we buy books).
Further, a key difference between a movie ticket and a DRM'd book is the following. I can buy a ticket to a movie anonymously; as long as I paid cash, there is no way for corporations to know I was at the movie and therefore bombard me with advertising based on that fact. Now granted, buying any ebook will probably require a user to disclose at least some personal information; but DRM requires that even more information be gathered and more importantly be retained by the seller of the eBook (since it will be needed to allow the book to be read on new devices or in the case of ereader, if a user changes their credit card). Now, even if the company that collects the information is benevolent (and I wouldn't bet on that), the fact that it stores that information makes it vulnerable to hackers. Not everyone would be comfortable having the list of books they have bought published somewhere on the internet, but DRM essentially makes this possible.
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The only type of DRM I would avoid is one that would give me a time limit in which to finish a book, like a library.
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Give them time.
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Bill