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Originally Posted by phenomshel
I know enough people with Kindles who would be willing to buy the files - and I myself would be willing to fund the endeavor. No, in my case it's that I don't happen to know anyone who's got the skills to even try to tackle the problem, and the established geniuses out there think like you do, that there's not enough of a market for it - which I still disagree with.
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Can't sell the books, can't even sell the ability to work on the hacks; nobody's willing to publicly contract to try to break DRM because psychotic laws are involved. The "market" here is a matter of attaboys and karma points and semi-public acclaim; there's no way to offer anyone those rewards.
And as mentioned upthread, many (I think "all" is an exaggeration) Topaz books are available on the torrent & darknet sites, scanned & proofed; why bother figuring out how to crack the DRM when the book's already available as a free download?
There aren't enough books that are uniquely available as Topaz to attract DRM-cracking interest. Convince Amazon to release the Harry Potter books in Topaz, and that may change.
It's also possible that the "crack" to Topaz is basically "convert to PDF, and re-do the OCR." Extracting the text might be pointless because it might be as bad as the auto-OCR'd epubs that Google offers. If the pages are scanned at low resolution (or converted to lo-res as part of the process), converting from Topaz may be pointless.
And the average hacker may not want to be associated with Topaz at all, may consider it such a bad filetype that they don't want to encourage it by helping to remove the DRM.