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dmaul1114 · 11-12-2009, 06:41 PM

Fair enough as that is the current specific example I guess.

But it's also a pipe dream to ever expect many textbook publishers--among the greediest corporations out there--to make DRM'ed ebooks available. They'd rather someone pay the absurd price for a book full of crappy content to be read and record for the blind person vs having a non-DRM'ed e-book that would eventually get passed around to other students.

I think we'll see textbook companies be resistant to e-books period for quite some time because of that reason.

11-12-2009, 06:41 PM	#59
dmaul1114 Wizard Posts: 2,300 Karma: 1121709 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Amazon Kindle 1	Fair enough as that is the current specific example I guess. But it's also a pipe dream to ever expect many textbook publishers--among the greediest corporations out there--to make DRM'ed ebooks available. They'd rather someone pay the absurd price for a book full of crappy content to be read and record for the blind person vs having a non-DRM'ed e-book that would eventually get passed around to other students. I think we'll see textbook companies be resistant to e-books period for quite some time because of that reason.