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Apple to wrap digital books in FairPlay copy protection
- Semiapies 17y ago"according to sources in the publishing industry." Who? Of course, we'll never find out who, whether or not this is true.
- FluidDjango 17y agoYes, it sort of depends on the professionalism of the LA Times reporting, but Jobs has been making the rounds of enough different publishers (and presumably had to share something of how "protection" is going to be handled). Certainly likely that some of those publishers loosened their lips to a LAT reporter.
- potatolicious 17y agoOkay - is anyone actually surprised by this? Publishers clearly gave Apple a lot of leeway in order to generate some competition for the Kindle - but I doubt dropping DRM would be one of them.
- DannoHung 17y agoWhat I'm curious about is if they'll be labeling DRM/DRM-Free book downloads like they started doing with songs. I know that at least a few publishers are willing to go the no-DRM route. Contrast with Audible, for example. Cory Doctorow has had public arguments about the fact that they will not let him sell audio versions of his books without DRM.
- leoc 17y ago> I know that at least a few publishers are willing to go the no-DRM route. RPG (not "computer RPG") publishing has been in a post-DRM era for several years now.
- easyfrag 17y agoI thought FairPlay was alive and well on video files sold through iTunes?
- JeremyBanks 17y agoMost, not all. Movie downloads have it, but not all music videos do.
- duskwuff 17y agoYep, it is.
- aditya 17y agoHas the book publishing industry failed to learn from the music publishing industry? Perhaps, this is a last ditch effort at extracting as much revenue as they can by retaining their illusion of control over something that fundamentally needs to be easy to share so that it becomes viral and generates a lot more revenue...
- jimmyjim 17y agoI don't think the two situations are entirely comparable. The decision to purchase music is squarely on an individual, whereas in colleges I think there's plenty of politics involved in bribing committees to keep on using the newest editions of books, thereby practically forcing students to purchase certain books.