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Originally Posted by TCSimpson
Where did I mention DRM as annoyance to my friends? I quoted TOR, the publisher, the imprint, AFTER they did a survey of their readers and authors, and I quote:
“Having been in direct contact with our readers, we were aware of how frustrated many of them were by DRM. Our authors had also expressed concerns at the restrictions imposed by the copyright coding applied to their ebooks. When both authors and readers are talking from the same page, it makes sense for the publishers to sit up, listen and take note—and we did!
We know, that our readers are earlier adapters of technology, the first in-line to experiment with new formats, new reading experiences and new devices. In part it’s the nature of the genre—a pushing of boundaries and imagination and it’s what we all love about the area. For us, we felt a strong sense that the reading experience for this tech-savvy, multi-device owning readership, was being inhibited by DRM leaving our readers unable to reasonably and legally transfer ebook files between all the devices they had. DRM was an irritant taking away the flexibility and their choice of reading device and format, the very things that made the ebook so desirable a format to begin with."
Who said anything about ad infinitum or reading the same book over and over. Let's say I bought a kindle, but for whatever reason, I now wish to try a Nook Color instead. So here's my kindle books, here's my Nook. I tend to buy books in bunches, many I haven't read yet. Let's say I have no idea how to remove DRM and want to read the books I ALREADY BOUGHT from kindle/Amazon, but now on my new Nook. Guess what? I can't. It would necessitate me going to PURCHASE those books all over again. OR taking my kindle, which I don't want to because I've already moved on to a NEW device.
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Sorry I took "most I know aren't" as referring to friends as it seems an unlikely topic to get into with non friends, and probably read more into that paragraph than you intended being as the rest of the post seemed to be about DRM. I stand corrected. I assumed your friends and yourself perhaps read Tor because it had no DRM. You did not explicitly state that.
Helen