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Old 02-18-2014, 06:24 PM   #46
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...share with a family member.
My guess is that's the exact reason that publishers insist on DRM. I assume that a non-trivial number of sales are to friends and family members (the people likely to be influenced by my "word of mouth" are exactly the people that I would be likely to share with) and publishers believe that those sales will be lost without "hard" DRM.

That, or the publishers' DRM decisions are simply irrational.
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My guess is that's the exact reason that publishers insist on DRM. I assume that a non-trivial number of sales are to friends and family members (the people likely to be influenced by my "word of mouth" are exactly the people that I would be likely to share with) and publishers believe that those sales will be lost without "hard" DRM.

That, or the publishers' DRM decisions are simply irrational.
But those are the same people that paper books were/are shared with.
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But those are the same people that paper books were/are shared with.
I agree with you. I also expect that if publishers had a way to tie a paper book to an individual with even partial effectiveness, they would do so.
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I agree with you. I also expect that if publishers had a way to tie a paper book to an individual with even partial effectiveness, they would do so.
Eek! I wouldn't be able to MOVE with thousands of books tied to me!
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