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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
It's only because DRM is regularly cracked that publishers eventually realize that DRM doesn't work and stop using it.
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I agree. If people just avoid DRM'd content, publishers will say "there's no demand for ebooks." There are no good statistical methods for tracking non-DRM ebook sales (so few publishers offer them, and many are very limited genres, that those numbers are often discounted), and none at all for tracking free public domain & Creative Commons ebook usage.
Making DRM removal easy and widespread shows publishers that they're paying a lot of money on programming for a false sense of security--money that could be going into profits.