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I agree what Professor Walshe wrote in that article. I think the way it should be is digital editions without DRM. Academic journal articles are already this way. A university (or yourself) can subscribe to an electronic version of a journal and the publisher provides PDF versions of the full articles of the journal. These PDF versions are not DRM'd--at least not the ones I encounter which are in the humanities and social sciences. These PDF versions are downloadable and freely transferrable to your other computers and devices.
The way the rest of the digital book industry is going, I'm not pleased at all. If anyone wants to see a total replacement of paper (referring to discussion on another thread in this sub-forum) then we'll have to solve this problem of access which DRM prevents. Until then, it won't go anywhere far.
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