Quote:
Originally Posted by rleguillow
I'm conducting my own campaign against ebook DRM. I figure that not buying the DRM'd ebooks isn't enough - the companies don't know how much money they are losing unless we tell them. So whenever I buy unlocked ebooks for my Sony ereader, which is pretty often, I send an email to Sony. Goes something like this:
"Hi. I just spent $xxx on ebooks over at nameofseller. That is $xxx that I did NOT spend at Sony. I buy from nameofseller because they sell books without DRM. It isn't because I want to cheat the publisher out of money or give copies of my books to someone else or anything like that - but if my Sony ereader dies I want to be able to continue reading the books I bought. With DRM, I can't even read them on another Sony ereader. So you don't get my book money.
If you were to take a page from Apple and begin selling your ebooks without DRM and you announce that with a lot of fanfare, you might see a big increase not only in sales of your ebooks but also of your ebook readers. Think about it."
I wonder - if all of us started sending them (or Amazon, or whoever) such emails, would they start listening? 
|
It's really publishers and to some extent authors you need to convince most, not Sony or Amazon or whoever. Many publishers won't allow their books to be sold without DRM at this point.
Also if you by DRM books from Sony and your device dies you can get another Sony device and read them.