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Having been in the ebook (and treebook) publishing biz for over a decade now, this subject is close to my heart. Must confess, though, that my sympathies lie with Bremen Cole and his feeling that DRM is a form of virus (actually anti-viral, but a bug no less). And ECW couldn't be more right in saying that the cat's already out of the bag.
What I'd like to see more than imposed legislation and electronic roadblocks is simple fair play. I have absolutely no beef with anyone sharing my own ebooks in the same way my paperbacks are shared around and recycled ... as long as they don't make a business of it to hurt us and our authors and as long as they don't vandalise the books we so carefully prepare.
Just play by the rules of cricket, chaps and all's fine.
Cheers. Neil (13 3/4 years old)
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