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Originally Posted by crossi
Why not once you get rid of DRM? After all I can buy mp3 downloads from Amazon or even Apple and play them on any mp3 player? Why NOT books?
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To add to what fjtorres said:
The demographics are different with less children/teens downloading books. The average adult kindle user in my experience is more concerned with convenience and ease of purchase than saving $10 or so a month. Most of them don't even try to find bargains. One guy a while back told me he just bought 8 books for under $100. I asked were they on sale and he said he didn't know they had sales.
If money matters, which it does to a lot, then they often buy an epub capable reader to use at the library or shop the sales/coupons.
And as fjtorres one can listen to more songs than read books. Not sure about tens of thousands in a week, but probably 1,000 is easily achievable or 50,000 songs a year. 1000 books might take longer.
I am not sure why you think DRM will disappear in the near future as you imply.
Adobe DRM has been around for 7 years and shows no signs of disappearing. Neither does Amazon DRM. Before that there were other forms that are now obsolete but the DRM is not gone it has been replaced.
Tor has gone DRM free as have a few others and while they say it hasn't hurt business, they
do not say it has helped business in any way.
While I am not a fan of DRM (basically I am ambivalent) I think it is a bit unrealistic to expect it to disappear when a big majority of publishers, venders and established authors/rights holders are using it.
Helen