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View Poll Results: Would you buy an e-book with DRM?
Yes 52 19.48%
No 58 21.72%
Yes, if I think I can remove the DRM after purchase 144 53.93%
It doesn't matter 13 4.87%
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Old 07-19-2010, 05:26 PM   #106
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If I boycott DRM, I might as well not have an ereader, and just kill a bunch of trees. Not to mention where would I store all of those pbooks?

I bought my readers to enhance my reading experience, not to limit it!
None of my purchased ebooks are DRM-restricted. Between those and the free ones (classics, samples, the Baen Free Library, etc.), I have somewhere around 2500 ebooks. I don't find that very limiting.

DRM, now, that's limiting.
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Old 07-20-2010, 01:45 AM   #107
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According to Amazon's press release it seems millions of people are buying DRM ebooks and the numbers are growing. No concrete evidence that the boycott is noticed by the publishers yet.
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Old 07-20-2010, 01:55 AM   #108
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Exactly! Unfortunately, there are books out there I want to read which don't come with a DRM-free option. So I buy them, but ONLY if I'm sure I can remove it.
Ditto. I have both Sony Reader desktop software and Adobe ADE. Never used the once.
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Old 07-20-2010, 04:08 AM   #109
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I dislike DRM, and prefer to buy ebooks that don't have it (about 60% of my ebook library is non-DRM). However, there are just too many books I want to read that aren't available without DRM, and DRM-stripping is too much of a bother - I'm a nurse by trade, not a hacker.
I'm quite new to ebooks (only got my first e-reader last month), and only found out how to strip DRM a few days ago (thanks to a certain someone here...) and am pleased to report - it's extremely easy.

By no means do you have to be an IT professional to do it.

(BTW, I'm talking about ADE's EPUBs. Haven't yet tried Amazon or any other DRM.)
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Old 07-31-2010, 08:48 AM   #110
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Yes and will remove the DRM afterwards..easy peezy.
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