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Originally Posted by cadele
Exactly! If I can't de-DRM the book I *paid* for then I am not going to buy the book.
My TBR (aka 'Everest') has enough books in it that I have a healthy buffer to fall back on until the time that sanity prevails and they stop slapping DRM on everything that moves.
It kills me that I am the one ultimately paying for the lock that keeps me out of the item I paid hard earned money for.
If the stores all move to the new encryption then I will just buy all of my books from Amazon. They can see how they like them apples...
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You won't be the only one. Fortunately, I think most of the stores are aware of this. Last time Adobe changed DRM they just did it and got away with it. This time it seems they had to give in. If stores do go this way (or also if publishers raise prices too high) I expect a number of consequences. Amazon will gain a lot of customers (assuming of course they do not do something similarly stupid). Library borrowings will increase. And, of course, some users will simply hoist the Jolly Roger and sail happily off into the sunset, penalising not only the rapacious publishers but also potentially denying authors their tiny royalties (if they have been lucky enough to earn out).