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Originally Posted by JoeD
1) Geographic - if you can't buy it, the other two don't matter anyway
2) DRM - if you can't read it directly or remove the drm then price doesn't matter
3) Price - Individual preference as to what a suitable price may be
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Geographic will either be the first, and only, consideration or not a concern at all. It will matter not at all if you live in the US, or matter 100% if you cant even get the book. After that though the other two are personal preference.
I think that the problem people have with DRM is not so much that it will not let you read the book, if you acquired it legally you should be able to read the book, assuming you got the correct format for your reader
. I think the concern most people have is that DRM limits what you can, legally, do with the book once you have purchased it. You can lend it to your mom, you can't resell it if you don't want to read it again, you can't even donate it to your library. And if for some reason that form of DRM stops being supported at some time in the future you may not even be able to read the book yourself again.