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Old 10-22-2014, 07:30 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Encryption-DRM doesn't appear to provide any benefit to publisher or author (see Baen, Tor, O'Reilly and soon some Simon & Schuster titles).

What makes you think that publishers will continue to fork out for DRM when they see no benefit?

The music industry also seems to show that encryption-DRM provides no benefits. All retail music is now DRM-free.
well my stand is not for all kind of books, cheap books mean low risk you can go DRM free, O'Reilly has created a big brand (by appending their name to book title) that even pirate books ultimately boost their brand name. How many indie publishers would be able to do that? And can anybody tell that every title under O'Reilly is DRM free without a single exception?

My stand is not to take any extreme position like "DRM is bad" or "DRM is all good" i want to know why still drm is alive, do people have reasonable alternative to that other than simply trusting consumers that it wont pirate.

Do we take O'Reilly and those other cases as a over generalization for a rather complex ebook industry? they had their particular situation case thats why they go DRM free should we make this into a thumb rule because we got a real proof?

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