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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
The relationship also exists because publishers feel they are being labeled as EVIL, money-grubbing monsters who care not one whit about the customers they hope to sell to.
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They are and they don't - it may not be the truth, but it is the impression they give (refusing to provide books people want, pricing ebooks higher than a HARDBACK (yes; I have seen this), ignoring users constant requests for 'portability' of their books they bought, ignoring rights granted by copyright, because apparently some of those rights 'don't apply to them' (ability to lend, and sell on books))
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
They are constantly accused of being greedy idiots, consumers voice their desire for them to just collapse, and for their employees to find new jobs.
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They are, We don't (not IMO)
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Consumers see publishers' resistance to give up on DRM as a sure sign that the pubs are all thieves.
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Don't see many people here calling publishers thieves... Greedy idiots who insist on enforcing their 'version' of rights onto their customers with half baked DRM ideas,which locks books onto specific devices, or specific vendors (usually both if they can), yes... but not thieves...
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What is worse and I have seen it on some Disney DVDs is that they force you to have to play all of the trailers. No way to get past them. That is even more annoying. At least with your annoyance, I can pop out the DVD, pop it back in and watch the trailers if I want.
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I know, Disney really winds me up with this kind of tactic; makes you want to RIP the DVD you bought, so you can cut off the trailers....
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What happens is the publisher's fault. ......... This is not protecting anything. This is causing people to flock to the darknet to find eBooks that do not have DRM that are already in a format they can use or can be converted.
I refused to purchase eBooks that I cannot strip the DRM from and convert to a format of my choice if I need to. That is akin to telling me that the DVD I just bought is only playable on my DVD-ROM drive and not my DVD player.
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I agree with all of this, wholeheartedley!