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Originally Posted by pilotbob
What's more interesting to me is that about 20% don't by books with DRM and 10% don't buy books AT ALL.
Also, it is very interesting that only about 14% "accept" DRM at all. Everyone else, 86% either avoid it or removes it.
Although I also know that the poll is skewed considering the audience here against what we would see with a mainstream ebook reader crowd that don't even know any thing about formats and DRM.
BOb
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Well, a 7% of the group selected some other solution, and based off of their answers, it seemed like it could be divided into people who accept DRM occasionally, those who try really hard to find a book without DRM before buying it with it and those who strip occasionally. Still, I think the numbers are overwhelming indicative of the fact that people here are unwilling to accept DRM.
Personally I had hoped that the numbers between those who refused to buy books with DRM and those strip it had been reversed, but oh well.
As for the "average" ebook reader; I am not sure we are too far off the norm here. After all, most ebook readers (at this stage) are probably early adapters. In any case, thanks to the record industry, I think many of these early adapters are at least somewhat familiar with DRM. So we will see what happens.
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Bill