12/8/2023 0 Comments Tor macmillan![]() I can easily imagine the rise of small, independent ebook retailers curating collections of genre-specific books in a way that behemoths like Amazon simply can’t. Removing DRM would help smaller ebook retailers who could then compete directly with the big boys. If I have more choice, I can buy more ebooks, and I may even buy more ebooks than I even have time to read! If I can buy books from any store for use on any device, I have far greater choice than if I’m locked into one platform, whichever platform that may be. If publishers want to start healthier ebook market, they have to drop DRM completely. Don’t pro-DRM publishers realize this is one of the key complaints from their customers? I’ve heard plenty of customers tell me that e-book prices need to be low because they’re only buying access to the content, not fully owning it. ![]() I’m not going to say where I work, or anything about my company, but I will say that I don’t think DRM is good for the publisher, author or customer. I feel as if e-book retailers are simply hiding behind that philosophy as a way to further support DRM and scare publishers away from considering a DRM-free world. I believe this is justified because I realize that when I buy an e-book from Amazon, I’m really buying a license to that content, not the content itself. I’m not putting them on a torrent, or even sharing them with family or friends. I want to be clear about how I’ve been using these unlocked books. The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized: I bought the book, and now I want to be able to read it on any device I choose. ![]() A key reason why I didn’t is that I want to honor the IP rights of publishers. I had thought about breaking DRM before, but had never done so. It’s well worth reading the whole post, but the journey that the exec went on, from wanting to respect IP to realising that breaking DRM can be hard to avoid, is one that readers everywhere are going through themselves. ![]() Owen spoke to a publishing industry executive, who spoke anonymously, about their experience breaking ebook DRM. ![]()
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