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The thing that annoys me most about this situation is that publishers with DRM seem to be heading in the direction that we lease books at the same cost that we previously bought paperbooks.
Do we ever really own Books with DRM, where the book seller or publisher can recall the work? Most of the time now we don't have the ability to lend ebooks or re-sell ebooks as we used to with print. For this massive reduction in the rights granted when buying a book they want to charge us the same price (and for an ephemeral object with is usually a few megabytes and can be stored/transmitted for about 4000-5000% less cost than a printed book).
The publishing industry needs a massive slap in the face, we won't pay the same for print media as we will for electronic, especially when we receive so much less.
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