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Originally Posted by Kris777
I think this article about DRM-Free Music dated on April 2, 2007 (2 years ago) explain everyting (the same situation will be with ebooks very soon):
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html
“We are going to give iTunes customers a choice—the current versions of our songs for the same 99 cent price, or new DRM-free versions of the same songs with even higher audio quality and the security of interoperability for just 30 cents more,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think our customers are going to love this, and we expect to offer more than half of the songs on iTunes in DRM-free versions by the end of this year.” |
There is a big difference between music and eBooks. For one, I can purchase a CD and rip the music to the format of my choice very easily and fairly quickly and I will then have DRM free digital music files.
To scan a book, OCR, check for errors and then format it to go with my reader is not easy at all. It's a long painstaking process that may not be worth it given how long it could take.
So our choices are to purchase the eBook with DRM, the pBook, or do without. Do you think do without for years is a good idea? I think it won't fly. I do think that the only way to get rid of eBook DRM is to bombard the publishers with messages telling them we do not want DRM. And for those who have been screwed by DRM, say so and say why and how much it cost for now useless eBook files. And anyone who is disabled and would benefit from DRM free eBook files, say so. Let them know how things should be.
But to say that a boycott of the eBooks we want to read will work, it won't. It won't be good for eBooks and it won't be good for us as we are unable to read a lot of content we enjoy reading. You say about 2 years. Others say up to 10 years. So let's say it's 5 years. Even 2 years is 2 years too much to go without reading what we enjoy. So basically, a boycott is a bad idea. We have to be vocal and tell the publishers what we want and why and do so without being mean or nasty and no name calling.