It may be true that drm is not going away soon, but that will be sufficient for commercial ebooks to remain an insignificant percentage (under 1%) of the book market. Even if drm goes away there remains the issue of pricing for ebooks; we need a very large supply of easily accesible very cheap or free ebooks for takeoff. I think that these 2 conditions (good drm-free open format and large supply of free/cheap content) are neccesary for commercial ebooks to take off.
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Originally Posted by davidrothman
BK, I don't want DRM, either. But it isn't going away soon--either in the States or Germany. What can be done is to make it as gentle as possible on readers and, yes, pay attention to the issue of longer-term access (which we intend to do). David
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