(Thanks Maggie)
I'm just getting started with ebooks. (My PocketBook 302 is due Monday
)
So far I've bought (and downloaded free) DRM free ebooks to read on my computer. I've looked on the 'net to learn how to strip DRM, but so far no luck. I'll find it of course. Not a real problem.
Like my previous post lets take a (very) short trip back in time. The VHS / Betamax war. Both companies wanted to make enough money to survive and to grow. That’s how we all survive, make enough money and grow.
The war ended because the people wanted a cheep device that they could buy a movie for, put it into the machine, and enjoy. They DID NOT want to worry "Will this movie (book analogy) work with the player I have?"
Here we sit with a book industry/people war. I want to buy a book
that I can keep. If I buy a book from Apple, Amazon, Sony or whoever I don't want to be stuck with a Betamax and no where to put it. Or a company that says "We give up and we're getting out of the ebook business. Sorry about all those books that were on our servers. We just turned them off and sold the parts. Good luck".
If the publishers want me to pay full prices then I damn well will break their DRM. That or buy non-DRM (my first choice).
Publishers that require DRM will be encouraging piracy. Companies like
Baen will have my loyalty and I'll not give their books away. Not even their "
free books".
Give us good books and we will pay for them. Give us crippled DRM books that reside on your server and can't easily be put on whatever new ereader we decide to buy 5 years from now,
and we'll buy from someone else.
One last thing - I am not boycotting Amazon, B&N, Apple. If they want my money they can sell me an ebook I can keep and use.
Can you hear me NOW Amazon?
EDIT -
hear added