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Originally Posted by webroot
Well there will be many encryption based drm provider for sure.
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No. There really won't. Not many that will be supported by all the popular readers/apps, anyway
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Originally Posted by webroot
From one angle you seem to indirectly backing the DRM by quoting Amazon's name they have gotten so big mainly because their kindle ecosystem which is not only a awesome reader but a robust hardware proof DRM device. Writers and publishers have peace of mind when publishing there... although here one big DRM is shrinking the market for other DRM vendors just because its natural not to fit many here.
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You're missing my point entirely.
The vast majority of devices/apps out there NOW that are being used to buy and read ebooks won't be able to read
anything that is encrypted using DRM other than Amazon's or Adobe's. Anything sold NOW, that is not able to be read by the vast majority of devices/apps out there NOW, is niche.
So anyone who has any hopes of making money on their DRMed book NOW will be selling it using one or the other (or both) of those encryption-based DRM schemes (as well as others, if they feel so inclined). And both of those DRM-schemes are easily thwarted, NOW.
I'm not saying DRM is right/wrong ... I'm not saying Amazon/Adobe are right/wrong. I'm saying anyone who encrypts their ebook with DRM that
precludes it from being sold by Amazon or the usual Adobe ePub vendors is dooming their book to not selling well.