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One thing I know: If Toni Weisskopf says that DRM is the sticking point over why Baen books are not in the Kindle store we know it's not Baen that's insisting on DRM.
As for the publishers, I don't think DRM and price are that closely coupled for most of them. It's not so much an issue of "we'll give up DRM if you let us raise prices," as much as a desire to fight rampant discounting which has created a 40% drop in the perceived value of their most important products over the last decade or so.
Nobody buys hardcovers for list any more, and that drop in perceived value is something publishers have to deal with, especially since their costs have not dropped significantly.
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