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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Instead of supporting the DRM-restrictive bookstores and authors, why not support the ones who treat you like an honest person and a valued customer, instead of a thief and a cheat?
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I'm sure lots of us do. But there are also times when a book one wants to read isn't available without DRM.
Even here on DRM-savvy mobileread, (on current poll numbers) DRM publishers are only losing 20% of their potential customers by having DRM. Of course, if their DRM couldn't be removed, they'd lose over 70%.
But if we could expanded the poll and get responses from the many, many people who've never heard of Mobileread, but have bought a Kindle or a Nook, I think you'd find that the number who know or worry about DRM is under 1%.
This is, of course, an invented statistic. But I think it's most likely an overestimate.