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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
"Easy to back up" only applies if DRM is nonexistent.
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It can still be easy to back up if DRM is tied to an account rather than device. Like iTunes music back in the day. You could copy your files and put them on up to five iPods/computers tied to your account, and could deregister a device you no longer used etc. to free up another machine.
Not as easy as DRM free of course, but it wasn't a huge hassle to get your backed up songs onto a new machine tied to your iTunes account etc.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The public is mainly asking that the costs that don't exist for digital content be removed from digital pricing.
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I do agree with that. I don't think e-books need to cost the same as the current paper book. But I do think tiered pricing is ok. They shouldn't have to sell the e-book for WAY below the hardcover and cannibalize hardcover sales, just like they don't have to put out a cheaper paper back the same day as the hardcover.
The e-book should be cheaper than the hardcover when it comes out. And when the paperback comes out, the e-book price should drop to be cheaper than the paper back.
Though I'm personally perfectly fine paying the same price as the paper back, which has been the case with most of the older books I've bought from the Kindle store--they tend to be the exact same price as the mass market paperback on Amazon.
Paperback or e-book, it's getting read once and not touched again, so the value is the same to me personally either way as DRM doesn't really matter in that case for me.