Thread: New version of DRM removal tools ("DeDRM")
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Old 12-21-2015, 05:19 AM   #436
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
It might lead to the demise of DRM (as I suggest above), but it wouldn't harm Amazon significantly. They'd just unilaterally state that any ebooks sold at Amazon now had to be DRM-free. Publishers would just have to comply, or see a large ( 50%? 70%? 90%?) drop in their ebook sales in the short term.
The publishers could stick to "either we sell with DRM or we don't sell at Amazon". Sure they might see a decline short term, but long term they'd see a shift from Amazon to ePub. Given the attitudes of some of the BPHs, I don't think they'd mind the short term drop in sales just to be able to stick it to Amazon.
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