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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Hate to say it, but that statement is exactly why there is still DRM. Maybe, instead of talking about taking from illegal sources, you talked about the legal non-DRM sources you willingly bought books from, publishers would be more interested in ditching DRM.
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I fail to see why. The illegal sources will be there regardless of whether the book can be purchased legally in ebook format - DRM or not. One of the effects I can see is people becoming so frustrated with the DRM scenario that they'd forego legal sources from the start and just download pirated copies. Wouldn't publishers prefer money in their pocket rather than people just downloading illegal copies from the dark recesses of the intarweb?
As for legal non-DRM sources - I've gotten a few titles from Fictionwise (MultiFormat) and Smashwords.
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Almost all the ebooks I buy, I already own paperbacks of. New releases (e.g. Star Trek Movie Tie-In by Alan Dean Foster) are the exception rather than the rule. My purchase of copies in ebook format is contingent on the fact that (a) it's not DRM'ed and can easily be format-shifted to my reader of choice or (b) the DRM can be removed and then, it can be format-shifted to my reader of choice. If it does not meet either of the above, then I can content myself with just grabbing the paperback from the bookshelf.