On the rising Tower of eBabel

[Sonist]

Originally Posted by seuzx

O_o This is turning into a rerun of the modern history of digital music distribution. Remember all those snazzy DRM audio file formats being launched by this or that company? Mp3 and piracy steamrolled the heck out of them.....

Unfortunately, this is true. Most publishers are either technologically challenged, or can't see beyond the tip of their nose, or just run by complete idiots.

Or, they just think, that ebooks will just go away, if they mire the users into a web of incompatible DRM and formats.

Sadly, a lot of writers will also suffer, because of their publishers' shortsightedness.

[krischik]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

Thanks for the new one. I agree that yet another format is bad but it may be just DRM on an existing one.

For a non technical user there is no difference between a new format and a new DRM.

Martin