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Originally Posted by davidrothman
But it ain't gonna happen.
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It already has started to happen. But like the dinosaurs, the big publishers don't want to adapt.
I really could care less whether the big publishers change or not. In the eBook market, publishers are irrelevant. They provide little business value for eBooks.
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Originally Posted by davidrothman
The real fantasy isn't OpenReader but the thought that modern classics will be legally available in the near future without DRM.
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Since they are already available illegally, the publishers have no choice in the matter. They will make them legally available or fail.
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Originally Posted by davidrothman
Finally--yet another reminder: DRM will be an OPTION for publishers using OpenReader.
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Ya, so? I've never said anything to the contrary.
What I've said is that Open Source DRM cannot exist.
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As for OpenReader's other features, I'd remind you that interbook deep linking and shared annotations aren't exactly commonplace among today's e-book-oriented formats.
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And are not in demand.