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Originally Posted by random50
DRM costs do not have to be covered.
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Personally I think DRM is the stupidest thing since cajun barbeque sushi. It's a waste of time and effort and the best thing it can do is disappear.
However, it is a fact of the industry that DRM is currently required for at least certain books at certain sales venues. It may be at the behest of the author, the publisher, or even the sales venue. Regardless of my opinion, it does exist, it is applied to ebooks and someone has to pay for it.
If you dislike it, don't buy books with it. But it is a part of the production cost and as such it's perfectly reasonable to expect that it be passed on to those customers who are willing to pay for books with DRM.
Of course we could just make the people who buy paper editions cover that cost, too; along with all the other costs involved in creating a book.