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Originally Posted by jkeranen
I don't think that anyone thinks that DRM is a good thing for the ebook buyer. The fact of the matter remains that most ebook publishers only sell content through DRM systems. If you play by the rules set by the publishers and by current law mobipocket is the DRM format with the widest compatibility. Even though .lit DRM is cracked wide open I think there is still some benefit in supporting a format that at least tries to have compatibility with a wide variety of devices.
Of course if mobipocket goes under permanently I will probably start working on a method to OCR screen captures so I can continue to read the books that I have purchased.
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I've already downloaded Snag-it, and will use it the moment MP comes back - if it ever does (and I doubt it will.)
There's also the saudette hack, but again, it's dependent on the MP DRM server coming back before it will work.
http://www.saudette.net/projects/ind...et_Reader_Hack
I'm seriously new to all this, this is my first Mobipocket purchase. The only previous e-books I've bought were PDFs or word docs, and read on my laptop on long plane flights. But it looks to me like its cheaper and safer to buy the book used in hard copy and OCR it. Yes, it's a couple of hours of labor - but it doesn't get turned off because everyone in France takes August off.
And I seriously can't understand the economics of selling an e-book for 4 times the price of the same title in paperback. Hard copies that pay the author $1/copy in hardback and $.10 in paper at least have the excuse of multiple layers of distribution to support, shipping, printing, storage etc. An E-book has none of that. Where's the $22 going? It sure isn't to the author!
I think the authors would be better off selling E-books for $3-5 without the DRM. They'd make more per sale, there wouldn't be significant piracy if the price was low.
I'll stop ranting now.