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The day publishers like Hachette start selling their publications directly and unencumbered by DRM is the day Amazon will slowly start losing their leverage. (A
by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
The day publishers like Hachette start selling their publications directly and unencumbered by DRM is the day Amazon will slowly start losing their leverage. (And get me as a customer.)
Sure, it will take a while, but that's only because these publishers have spent the last two decades sitting on their asses counting their money whilst Amazon ate their lunch.
I don't subscribe to the doctrine "disruption = good", but publishers are part of the fat and lazy copyright exploitation industry that truly deserved to be disrupted.
If Amazon tried to stop Hachette from competing that would be a different matter. But they are handing Amazon this leverage simply because they still can't be arsed to innovate themselves.
- pkaye 12y agoAmazon already allows DRM free publications to be emailed into Kindle devices.
- dublinben 12y agoThat doesn't help much when only a handful of smaller publishers sell their books in DRM-free formats. I read a lot, and really like e-books. I don't buy very many e-books though, because the condition in which they're sold is so hostile to the consumer.
- pkaye 12y agoI have gotten DRM free books from O'reilly's, Informit, Peachpit and Apress. Although all technical books, they are all major publishers.