> There's no reason that DRM could allow the easy transfer of a book from one person or platform to another. Unfortunately, that is exactly what they do and wh

> There's no reason that DRM could allow the easy transfer of a book from one person or platform to another. Unfortunately, that is exactly what they do and what publishers use them for! > The publisher could easily offer the same book in multiple formats. Yes. I know exactly one publisher that does it: Bragelonne. They sell DRMed ebooks on Kindle and Apple store and DRM-free books on all other libraries, and freely give the DRM-free to any buyers of locked books. > DRM does add complexity, but as most people read via an application rather than a text file, this can be abstracted for almost all readers. There exists no application to read DRMed books on my computer on my tablet and on my smartphone. I can only read Adobe DRM on my e-reader. However, I can read DRM free books on all those devices. > this is a problem with the implementation. Yes, but since there will never be any implementation for my devices, this is a purely rhetorical argument. > Authors not getting paid so that they can eat also stifles innovation. Authors published by no DRM publishers also get paid. Authors published with DRM also get pirated. > In summary, the issue with DRM for books is the implementation. Many of the problems listed are real but could be almost completely negated by the publishers doing things that cost them almost nothing, even following the assumption that everyone wants to read their books for free. DRM costs a lot to publishers. publie.net chose to be DRM free also as it was not able to pay adobe for using DRM.