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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
Now that you are mentioning it, it makes me think it could send the complete opposite message. It could make publishers think and argue that now isn't the time for e-books since people are obviously avoiding them.
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i agree with this ; i think at the very least, if you do not buy drm ebooks specifically because of the drm, you should write to the publishers and tell them that, and request drm free books, and ask them whether they would consider publishing without drm. they're not mind readers and i think they would be all too happy to point to weak sales and say "see ? like we've been saying, no reason to change the status quo, nobody is interested in ebooks."
but i still do think that the best policy is to buy ebooks (even with drm, if it is a form which can be stripped ; they must know which ones have been cracked, and if they see a significant trend in favour of these formats they might stop to think why) AND write to publishers to tell them that you don't like drm but you do like ebooks.