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pwalker8 · 01-10-2009, 11:14 AM

Now that the record companies have agreed to allow iTunes to be DRM free, I wonder how long it's going to be before the book publishers start to cave in. One thing that I like about the way Apple is doing it is they allow you to download a drm free version of any song you may have bought previously at just the price difference between what you paid and the drm free price. So far approximately half of the 500+ songs of the drm free songs that I have upgraded were a free upgrade, with the rest being a 30 cent per song upgrade.

My hope is that when the book publishers cave and start having drm free books, that they will follow this model (reasonably priced upgrade for previously purchased books). Of course, there are some publishers who are already on the drm band wagon, Baen books has always been DRM free and rumor has it that Tor will soon be using Baen as their ebook store. Plus on Amazon, a percentage of books are DRM free, either because the book is in public domain, or because the author/publisher wants that particular book to be drm free.

01-10-2009, 11:14 AM	#1
pwalker8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,196 Karma: 70314280 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: iPad Pro, iPad mini, Kobo Aura, Amazon paperwhite, Sony PRS-T2	DRM free future? Now that the record companies have agreed to allow iTunes to be DRM free, I wonder how long it's going to be before the book publishers start to cave in. One thing that I like about the way Apple is doing it is they allow you to download a drm free version of any song you may have bought previously at just the price difference between what you paid and the drm free price. So far approximately half of the 500+ songs of the drm free songs that I have upgraded were a free upgrade, with the rest being a 30 cent per song upgrade. My hope is that when the book publishers cave and start having drm free books, that they will follow this model (reasonably priced upgrade for previously purchased books). Of course, there are some publishers who are already on the drm band wagon, Baen books has always been DRM free and rumor has it that Tor will soon be using Baen as their ebook store. Plus on Amazon, a percentage of books are DRM free, either because the book is in public domain, or because the author/publisher wants that particular book to be drm free.