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Originally Posted by Lilly
That's true in my case; when my PRS-505 was my only reader, before buying a Kindle, I bought Lit format books 80% of the time for my PRS-505.
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yes, me too ; for drm books i bought almost exclusively lit to remove the drm (and because it's a good conversion format), and the very occasional mobi if the book is not available in other formats. i was so excited by the inept crack because i really want to support a standard format for ebooks and epub is my preferred format anyway, but i refuse to buy a book i could lose access to because of drm. now, instead of buying lit books, i can buy epub books, knowing that i can remove the drm and be sure to keep my library accessible to me, and be happy knowing i am "voting with my pocketbook" for an excellent standard format, as well.
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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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well, as Liviu said, it really depends on who is demanding drm ; so i don't know if it's really to the point of a conspiracy theory or simply that the ones who could do something about it don't care to. i've recently learned that french publishers in charge of the digital divisions are majoritarily opposed to drm (yay !!), but of course they need to figure out how to publish drm free in practice, bearing in mind that many authors insist on drm because they are still scared of evil pirates, and many of these editors' bosses are not so enlightened. nonetheless it's a good sign and it gives me hope that the drm war (here, at least) won't drag on for 10 years.