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Originally Posted by zacheryjensen
Perhaps the only effective way to promote non-DRM sales is to popularize the idea about eBooks not being easily sharable or whatever because of DRM...
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That's probably the LAST thing you want to popularize... because it's the publishers' fear of sharing that is directly leading to demands for DRM on their books.
I hate to say it, but the future of sharing media is in serious doubt, and it might be something we're all going to have to get used to giving up. As convenient as it was in the past, the paradigm is completely different with easy-to-replicate digital media than it was with physical media. Sharing too easily results in mass distribution, in the eyes of publishers. Until that perception changes, and publishers believe they will see healthy profits even with
some sharing, we will be stuck with DRM. That's how it worked with the music, and how it will work with e-books.