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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
I suppose the "cracked DRM = more sales" theory is one possible explanation, but I'm always a bit suspicious of "conspiracy theory" ideas like that. I mean, given that the publishers are the ones clamoring for DRM, you would think they would insist that e-book vendors keep their DRM secure and uncrackable.
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Honestly I think that authors and higher management are insisting on drm, rather than editors and the day to day people involved in publishing, so while I would not call it a conspiracy theory, it's just that the people who would have to clamor to patch the drm are not interested, the vendors others than Adobe are not interested, and it's not worth the cost of overhauling, especially when there is no unique all-in-one thingy (store, app, format) like iTunes...
This is why I am very curious how Adobe will respond to the inept challenge...
For me, I like having the options of buying multiple formats, but if there were a total lock down (impossible imho) I would revert to buying or borrowing print, waiting for wild versions of locked e's and such since with the exceptions of throwaway books when the print prices are very high and do not come down because those books are POD, while e prices are much lower, I have no intention of buying rentals so to speak...
In the iPod case, Apple was the essential beneficiary of drm because that locked people into iPods and that's where they made their money, not on iTunes which always has been a marginal revenue place for them. Even so, the iTunes drm was not as strict as in books since you could burn to a non-drm cd, easily rip the song with recording software, not to mention that 90%+ of the content people have on their ipods has never been bought from iTunes either...