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What stops you from buying ebooks
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My answer isn't in the list.
Geographic Restrictions is a lot worse than DRM. People are putting all DRM schemes in one pile, but there are various versions, some good, some less good, some horrible.
Social DRM (some of your information is added into the book, but you can read it on all devices): no problems there, if you really want DRM, take this one. It won't stop people from reading.
x amount of ID's can be registered: your device has an id, you enter that ID and you can download the book for that id. Mobipocket has it. You can register a few ID's for your account, and you can change the ID after x amount of time. Not good, not bad, you can update your device and still read your books.
I believe the adobe DRM works a bit like this, but it requires authentication (authorisation?) servers. Horrible idea. What if the server goes down? I can't read my book then. I've no idea how it exactly works, as I have never bought an epub book...
Naturally, the fact that there are several versions of DRM implementations out there is the worst of all.
But then GR. This will actually stop me from buying books,
because I'm not even allowed to buy books! I need to lie and cheat before I can actually pay for a book.
I will still buy DRM'd books. But only if I can strip the DRM. I don't care how much a book is priced, it depends on the book, not the format and DRM. But, as I'm not allowed to buy the book, I won't. And I will go to the dark side again, when I'm done with my current to-read list, if a book I want is not available to me.