01-06-2011, 07:11 AM | #241 |
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Ok, I see. I would like to think that in the past two years since that take-down notice, the industry would have made some progress. I see the battle is still before us.
Thanks for that. I just can't seem to wrap my head around how DRM is a benefit to anybody. If I owned a bookstore, I'd want to sell my product to anyone wanting to purchase. Not just the Chevy drivers. |
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It's certainly not of benefit to customers. Hopefully publishers will eventually see that it's not to their benefit either. |
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Fascinating. Well let me rephrase, if I owned a bookstore, I can't imagine the sales pitch that would make me want to implement a system that would add to my overhead and restrict my sales to only those customers who drive Chevys.
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Try to look at this. I have to develop a system to offer my books and allow the purchases. I can do it from scrap (to implement, as you say) or I can purchase a commercial system which is already working. What would you choose? And no, my profession is not software developer, it's bookstore owner, and open source is a good concept, but you can't find software to support all the value chain at a bookstore (sorry, software developer here, in the common war between tailored systems and commercial systems).
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The only problem will be is that if DRM is removed from eBooks totally, then we won't have eBooks via the library/Overdrive unless that's the only place DRM is kept going.
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No, no more than it is in effect giving away commercial music or audiobooks or other unprotected stuff they lend currently.
They loan that stuff now, and there does not appear to be a great drain on resources or an uproar of copyright complaints. So why would ebooks...which if I understand correctly, still have a smaller audience than MP3 audio material...be any different? |
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01-06-2011, 04:09 PM | #253 |
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FYI, there is now a tools_v3.1.zip out there with bug fixes for all of the tools and plugins, DeDRM 1.6 and added support for older mobi TEXtREAd books.
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Isn't it ironic that the number of views of this thread is so high?
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01-06-2011, 07:24 PM | #255 |
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The irony of DRM is it's either too much or too little. With DRM, the readers' rights are restricted in a way they would find ridiculous with pbooks. Can't lend it (except once for 14 days), can't resell it, can't donate it to a library, can't give it to someone else. Then there's the unlikely but real chance you won't be even able to read it at some point b/c you don't actually own it.
Without DRM, it's trivially simple to make unlimited, instant, perfect copies and spread it to all the world. It's easy to say DRM is easily breakable and authors should forget the pirates and concentrate on paying customers. But when it's your livelihood it's difficult to be sanguine. Locks don't stop the determined, but they deter the casual and opportunistic, and keep the basically honest from being too tempted. |
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