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Originally Posted by 6charlong
Thank you Xenophon, for your clear and reasoned explanation of this core issue. It seems to me that this issue of DRM-and-copyrights is what is confounding wider adoption of eBook publishing.
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This sentence got my mind wandering (not too difficult today btw)...
Music files were there long before any DRM schema was introduced. Those "protected" music files are a fairly recent invention. Music files are now highly popular, every knows them, and I'd say most people that have access to them (aka, have internet) have a portable player to play them.
Then book files... First, we had the PG library, all in plain text. But those are only old (or boring) books, and no bestsellers. So, only a few people know about these books and actually use/read them.
Then the bestsellers start popping up, but they generally are under some sort of DRM scheme. So people need to get used to a new medium (ebooks) but they can only use certain readers to read certain books. No wonder most people don't even think about ebooks as a next generation of reading books... (as they do think about music files as a next generation of listening to music).