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Originally Posted by darryl
One observation I would make is that this whole discussion is taking place in a fantasy world. A fantasy world in which we are pretending that DRM is effective and that Apprentice Alf does not exist.
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And a fantasy world where mainsteam buyers care about things like DRM, content formats, and lock-in.
But since I have yet to see a single DRM pickett at Amazon, Apple, or Sony or a single occupy event over formats, I rather think that the people who vote their wallets simply don't care about those things. And haven't for 14 years. Longer, if you count WMV and Real Media.
Those are all good talking points to shoot the breeze and square the circle but push come to shove... Well, it never does get that far.
As a wise poster around here once said: "people buy ebooks, not epubs, not mobis, not anything else."
People buy the content, not the wrapper.
And authors go where the sales are.
Two days ago, I saw this snappy line from an author:
"Fishing in the seven seas is good, but fishing where you catch fish is better.
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http://www.thepassivevoice.com/08/20...comment-319671
Theory is one thing, earning a living is a different kettle. Of fish.
Until the epub vendors up their retail game it really doesn't matter if they're interoperable or not.