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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Yeah, petitions seldom do anything, especially not when they're unprofessional like that.
And Alisa is right, just like Apple stuck to their DRM as long as possible with music until they had their hands forced by other companies, it will be the same with eBooks.
The major stores like Amazon and Sony and Barnes and Noble won't drop their DRM until some smaller stores drop theirs and start siphoning sales from them. And Amazon will probably be like Apple and be the last to drop it since they apparently have the market share lead (if their claims are to be believed).
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Well, according to Steve Jobs Open Letter on DRM it was the publishers who were forcing the issue... not Apple.
But, I do think just like music eventually eBooks will all be sold DRM free to0.
BOb
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Publishers were always forcing the issue. But Apple was the last major store to go against them and drop DRM.
But I agree. DRM for books will drop off just like it did for music once the e-book market is big enough to be vocal enough that they have little choice.
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Apple was the last major store to drop DRM completely because all but one of the big record labels refused to allow Apple to sell DRM-free music for years after they offered it through other stores (such as Amazon). Note that Apple and EMI went DRM-free
before the other big stores!
Re Apple & DRM more generally, see my previous posts
here and
here. One-sentence summary: Apple has consistently opposed DRM for straight-forward business reasons (as in: "DRM does not make good business sense
for Apple").
The history of Apple and DRM is quite clear if you go back and read original news reports on the subject. It's also important to realize that there's a subset of the open-source world that believed otherwise from the start—perhaps they were influenced by Richard Stallman's well-documented dislike for Apple. Or maybe it was something else; I don't really know. But the meme in the open-source community has been at odds with the detailed news reporting from the very beginning... and my sources indicate that said meme has been dead-wrong from the very beginning!
As always, YMMV.
Xenophon