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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
actually, my post was more responding to the proposition of a new device based on the eb1150 but with e-ink screen. i'm not in favor of any drm schemes.
i hope B&N *has* been reading your posts, and all of ours : i think it would be great it publishers and retailers would listen to what we, the consumers, really want ! i hope you're right !!
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I hope too, but how long did it take the music industry to learn their lesson? They lost countless opportunities to turn the internet into the biggest cash making machine ever seen, but they blew it by treating digital the same way as they did physical product. It was left to the ingenuity of ordinary, and some not so ordinary, individuals to provide what the big companies lacked.
Every new instance of DRM, every locked-down and restricted format is just another roadblock in ebook adoption, another loss of revenue for them in the long run. If they'd, en masse, adopted ePub as the standard, opened their stores to every reader and priced it all fairly they'd have a good chance of still being relevant in a few years.
As it stands, too many formats, too many restrictions, too pricey. When this kicks of big and proper, I fear the internet will have left them irrelevant and just as clueless as the MPAA/RIAA et al.