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I want to be able to read anything that's available as e-book (including DRM content) | 62 | 51.67% | |
DRM? That's Down-Right Maddening. PG & non-DRM publishers are my sanctuary | 58 | 48.33% | |
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09-13-2007, 07:53 PM | #46 | |
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When you buy a paper book, you've bought the physical media. You are welcome to do with that copy as you please: hold on to it, sell it to a used book store, sell or give it to a friend... What you may not do (except under certain restricted circumstances) is make another physical copy of the book, or an electronic copy of the content of the book. You bought the physical media, and the right to use or pass on that copy. You did not buy the content, or the right to copy and distribute that content. For practical purposes, one person can have and read a paper book at a time. If more than one person wants to read the book, they have to get their own copies. ______ Dennis |
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09-13-2007, 09:11 PM | #47 |
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I think the best way to support non-DRM is to support the authors and publishers who don't use it. Let the non-DRM publisher's balance sheets speak to the DRM-based publishers. But that's just me and YMMV. And it doesn't mean that I won't buy DRM, just that the non-DRM winds up getting more money from me.
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09-14-2007, 01:38 AM | #48 | |
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When DRM is conceived with public/private key encryption such that I can decrypt my content in perpetuity, and the decryption of that content benefits the author directly, I will buy DRMed content. It has been posted here that any such DRM scheme is doomed to failure. I think that is a failure of the imagination. See PGP security. 1/ Would you post a purchased book on a p2p network if it contained a digital signature that pointed back to you? 2/ If you could download a free reader for any device that was keyed to your digital signature, would you buy DRMed content for it, providing that your content could be displayed on any and all of your reading devices forever? |
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Meanwhile, I don't buy DRMed ebooks, and have no plans to start. If the only ebook format is DRMed, I'll buy the paper book. For me, ebooks are a additional format for reading, not a replacement for paper books. ______ Dennis Last edited by DMcCunney; 09-15-2007 at 02:12 AM. |
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You are lucky. Where I live English pbooks are an expensive luxury and are very hard to find. But I am studying Chinese and, in time, may be able to read local fiction. Though I visit the west every year, pbooks are just too heavy to bring back.
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I love ebooks, but as I said, they are an additional format, not a replacement for paper. ______ Dennis |
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While DRM is a pain in the neck, I try to stay away from Mobipocket. That way I can always access my other books. Fictionwise's problem Did not really effect me. The mobipockets were replaced with eReader, and I kept all of my ms readers. They still work, you just can not redownload them anymore. Out of 355 eBooks Only 125 books were effected. 99 have been replaced with eReader (which I detest), while the other 26 MS Readers are still on hold. I am always trying new formats. Ms Reader and MobiPocket are the ones that I use the most. |
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the bottom line is: why can you lend a dead tree book to as many people you like yet you don't have the same ability with ebooks. You should have the same rights of usage for ebooks as dead tree books.
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