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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The problem is either we buy the DRM book and break the DRM or we put up with DRM. And if we do not purchase the DRM books, the publishers will think ebooks are a failure and not publish them. They won't be thinking "Oh they don't want to buy DRM books so we'll remove the DRM and sell them." They don't think like us. They think like we are all cheats and thieves.
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Not so, old chum! There are plenty of non-DRM sources of e-books (like the one your signature says you're currently reading, and the books on independent sites like mine, for example), and ways to track those sales as well (if not as easily) as the big publishers' sales.
If we purchase no-DRM books exclusively, the publishers will say, "Well, we can't sell with DRM, because people only buy no-DRM books, so in order to make money, we need to think of something else that doesn't require DRM." Or they'll go out of business, and the no-DRM businesses will grow.