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Originally Posted by pilotbob
There seems like a no brainer fix to this for me. The publishers are really in the drivers seat here. Tell the authors if they don't want DRM free ebooks there book will not be an ebook. Customers will just have to choose another book.
BOb
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i agree, that seems pretty easy. but the problem is, what if the majority say, "okay, no ebooks then ! fine with us !" ? i WANT my favorite authors to be published in ebooks !! and to be honest, if this means they will only accept to be published with drm, i will buy a drm copy and remove the drm, if it's a book i want enough. i'd rather have the book and take that little bit of extra trouble (it's not *that* much extra trouble, anyway, particularly since french publishers are overwhelmingly choosing to publish in epub format, and adobe epub drm is now really easy to remove, and epub is my format of choice anyway).
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Such a sad state of affairs when the people in the creative community are the ones holding back on what is, arguably, the greatest shift in the production of art to occur in the last century The playing field is being levelled day by day and yet there are still those who cling onto the past.
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oh, i so, so agree !!! i don't know what percentage of authors are clinging to drm (not all of them ; some even publish under cc licences, i know) but it's really a shame they are still stuck in this mindset.
especially because look at JK Rowling, arguably the most high-profile anti-ebook author : she refused to allow *any* ebook editions of her works, to stick it to those nasty pirates. yep. can't find *any* harry potter ebooks...
i do think they will eventually be convinced, but there are so many of them, if you have to go one by one who knows how long that will take. that's why i am wondering if we should start writing to our favorite authors, just to ask how they feel about the question (ebooks in general, and drm as well), and perhaps to point them in the direction of some convincing articles if they write back saying "pirates !! arg !!!"
some of my favorite authors are dead, so i hope nobody will be claiming that their ebooks have drm "because the author insisted."