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Originally Posted by Dan1123
But you can't rip a book into Sony Reader format like you can with a CD to MP3/AAC.
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I think that's where the analogy with the iPod breaks down in my case. I buy a CD expecting to listen to it many times, but I buy
most books with the intention of reading them only once. So, the ability to "rip" a book is really only of importance to me if it's the only way to get fresh content.
If fresh content is reasonably available from other sources (Borders, manybooks, etc), the ebook would be a sale for me.
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Originally Posted by NatCh
They've been watching RIAA get their head's handed to them, and the general disintegration of the various DRM schemes in the music industry -- I can only hope they draw intelligent conclusions from those shows.
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Maybe...DVD is still is effectively locked down in the US. How many people do you know that rip movies compared to music? The issue isn't how well the DRM works, it's that the process is illegal in the US, which means there will be no big-box store solutions for Joe Consumer (or even technically adept users who want to stay on the right side of the law).
And notice this hasn't impacted DVD sales. Why? Most people don't even know DVD's are copy protected. They work on any player they have, so who cares? I think the problem with ebook DRM isn't the DRM itself, it's the tower of Babel of competing standards. Think about how DVD sales would be impacted if there were five or ten different DRM schemes.
So, if epub can achieve the kind of market penetration that DVD CSS has I don't think it will be much of a sales hindrance. Before the whole Kindle/Amazon thing, I'd have said Adobe was going to finally round this mess up, but now it looks like we've got to wade through the literary equivalent of the HD/DVD vs. Blu-Ray mess. Ugh.
Great discussion! Thanks for your insightful post Nate - hope you're right in your predictions!!!
Regards,
Bob