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bean · 03-06-2015, 01:19 AM

There's a big social ill of using DRM; check Cory Doctorow's many presentations. I felt that the trivial-to-remove B&N DRM was a fig leaf towards publishers and I could support it. I am not throwing good money at a company that betrayed its customers so.

Amazon is becoming both a monopoly and a monopsony in the ebook market so I am not supporting them. I am feeling dirty for having wavered over the Paperwhite; the screen was too good so I had one for a little while but it's gone now and when I had it I still didn't buy books at Amazon.

The evilness of Adobe DRM is an even deeper and more complex topic and yet... I feel I might need to look at Kobo as having no good options left. Although I only have Linux (and Android, rooted of course) so I am not 100% how that will work. I might need to press the banking terminal-only Windows machine into a DeDRM role as well. Yuck! That would mean I need to touch Windows more than once a month.

I have stolen most of my books I had since B&N's betrayal and I don't feel good. It is absolutely and totally ridiculous that I can download anything I want to read via a trivial Google search and don't need to fight DRM. But, I want the authors to get money.

So the question remains: where do we go now?

03-06-2015, 01:19 AM	#886
bean Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 12026 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kobo Aura HD	There's a big social ill of using DRM; check Cory Doctorow's many presentations. I felt that the trivial-to-remove B&N DRM was a fig leaf towards publishers and I could support it. I am not throwing good money at a company that betrayed its customers so. Amazon is becoming both a monopoly and a monopsony in the ebook market so I am not supporting them. I am feeling dirty for having wavered over the Paperwhite; the screen was too good so I had one for a little while but it's gone now and when I had it I still didn't buy books at Amazon. The evilness of Adobe DRM is an even deeper and more complex topic and yet... I feel I might need to look at Kobo as having no good options left. Although I only have Linux (and Android, rooted of course) so I am not 100% how that will work. I might need to press the banking terminal-only Windows machine into a DeDRM role as well. Yuck! That would mean I need to touch Windows more than once a month. I have stolen most of my books I had since B&N's betrayal and I don't feel good. It is absolutely and totally ridiculous that I can download anything I want to read via a trivial Google search and don't need to fight DRM. But, I want the authors to get money. So the question remains: where do we go now? Last edited by bean; 03-06-2015 at 01:26 AM.