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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Exactly (although I have several Apple devices love them all). As I stated earlier:
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Certainly I would consider having hard to break DRM a rational reason for not buying from the iBook store. That's part of the reason that I rarely buy from them. However, it doesn't really have anything to do with the original subject of the thread.
It is useful to understand why a company does what it does. Apple focuses on what the majority of their customer base. Most people who buy books tend not to care or even know about DRM. They read a book and then discard it, never to pick it up again. They want the quickest, easiest way to buy the books they want, be it the latest best seller. Apple, of course, has books in it's store that don't have DRM, the DRM is the choice of the publisher. Apple probably could care less except from the stand point that publishers care. It has nothing to do with Apple being evil, or a bad company or simply the company everyone in my clique bad mouths. It's simply that from Apple's point of view, it's not something they are particularly interested in except as a selling point to publishers who obsess over piracy.