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Originally Posted by nekokami
Would the publishers believe that the purchaser wouldn't scan the book and then pass around the digital copy, if it wasn't locked down by DRM?
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This is a diplomatic compromise which provides monetary incentives. They would be faced to consider them.
If you were in their place, would you face declining sales because of public upheaval against DRM or accept lower assured revenues and bigger amounts of sales?
As for sales they could add a 3 buck surcharge for the paper version containing the ebook!
I'd be a willing customer for this. The ebook would become "solid state" because of it's welding to the paper book.
For those who don't want the paper, after having scanned their ecopy, nothing prevents them from reselling it! Again we stay with the infrastructures already provided by the paper world.
Have you ever bought a computer magazine with a CD included? They're a little more expensive because of deals done with the owners of the included content. Okay! Some of the content is only demos, but a lot is of burgeoning enterprises taking a gamble because they feel the distribution of their wares is worthwhile!
