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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Those are not things bookshops can decide to do.
They can't just sell eBooks without DRM, that is up to the publishers.
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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
They can refuse to sell DRM encumbered ebooks.
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So publishers should cater to a market that doesn't exist because it will continue not to exist if the publishers don't change their business model? And we're talking about the same publishers that already don't prioritize ebooks?
Look, I don't care for DRM either. You'd likely be hard pressed to find any customer that prefers DRM.
But your solutions are non-solutions.
If local bookstores that currently don't sell ebooks banded together and started selling ebooks protected by Adobe DRM and people like you refused to purchase from them because of it, you would only be doing Amazon a favor.