Stripping the DRM for most drm (adobe or amazon) is way easier than you seem to think. Digitizing a print copy... - usually costs more to buy - takes much mo

Stripping the DRM for most drm (adobe or amazon) is way easier than you seem to think. Digitizing a print copy... - usually costs more to buy - takes much more time to dissect and scan the book than it takes to crack drm - PDFs (from scan) have lower visual quality, and are bigger (PDFs have a place... it's difficult to convert something like an organic chem textbook with all the margin diagrams and complex layout into a nice epub, for instance, but even then good PDFs are generated by the publisher, not scanned) - OCR errors, so text search may not always work even if you can read the original text (you kept is as a pdf, kept it as an image with OCR text as a separate layer only used for searching, or used cleartype-like tech which is similar but basically compresses similar looking glyphs) - converting to a real ebook (epub) for reading on smaller devices, without extensive proofing (and reformatting if the book uses layout, as in it isn't a traditional fiction/nonfiction work that's all uniform prose), has mediocre-to-horrible results. Line wrapping, layout and OCR errors abound.