[DawnFalcon]

Not at all. They have had years and the example of the music industry as where not to go and publishers like Baen and O'Rilly doing the right thing right in front of them - and those are not recent developments!*. They're behaving like the dinosaurs they, unfortunately for their authors, are.

*Webscriptions is over a decade old!

(They're also ensuring, by their actions, that the authors get trampled. At this point, it's the longer term interests of readers which matter, it's too late for the publishers afaik).

Heck, go back a year and they were not pushing georestrictions. They're deliberately lining themselves up for a fall. I know at least one author who put a clause about respecting his moral rights into his contract, and has broken off with the publisher due to DRM on the ebooks of his works blatantly breaking that (and another with the same clause is currently very close to doing the same) - not big authors, but they thought ahead!