Comments on: ‘Sony DRM-free to iTunes?’ Time for e-books also to drop ‘protection’? http://www.teleread.com/drm/sony-drm-free-to-itunes-time-for-e-books-also-to-drop-protection/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:35:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Spencer http://www.teleread.com/drm/sony-drm-free-to-itunes-time-for-e-books-also-to-drop-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-952119 Spencer Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:16:28 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/11/sony-drm-free-to-itunes-time-for-e-books-also-to-drop-protection/#comment-952119 "I really like the way the book industry treats law-abiding customers." That is exactly what's at stake. They are treating customers like me, who would love to pay them for the work, like pirates. “I really like the way the book industry treats law-abiding customers.”

That is exactly what’s at stake. They are treating customers like me, who would love to pay them for the work, like pirates.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/drm/sony-drm-free-to-itunes-time-for-e-books-also-to-drop-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-952025 David Rothman Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:18:24 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/11/sony-drm-free-to-itunes-time-for-e-books-also-to-drop-protection/#comment-952025 > That being said, there are plenty of others who fear that if they remove DRM, that in the future only one book will be sold and then everyone will read copies of it. Nice, rational fear, eh? I guess publishers will have to stop doing paper books so they can't be scanned and put out in DRMless P2P editions ;-) I really like the way the book industry treats law-abiding customers. (Major sarcasm alert.) Thanks, David > That being said, there are plenty of others who fear that if they remove DRM, that in the future only one book will be sold and then everyone will read copies of it.

Nice, rational fear, eh? I guess publishers will have to stop doing paper books so they can’t be scanned and put out in DRMless P2P editions ;-)

I really like the way the book industry treats law-abiding customers. (Major sarcasm alert.)

Thanks,
David

]]> By: Bill McHale http://www.teleread.com/drm/sony-drm-free-to-itunes-time-for-e-books-also-to-drop-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-952019 Bill McHale Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:45:16 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/11/sony-drm-free-to-itunes-time-for-e-books-also-to-drop-protection/#comment-952019 Unfortunately, I am afraid the book industry is going to have to learn the same way the music industry did; the hard way. Yes, there are some publishers (Baen chief amongst them) that recognize that it is against their interests to DRM books. That being said, there are plenty of others who fear that if they remove DRM, that in the future only one book will be sold and then everyone will read copies of it. That being said, the biggest problem right now is that Amazon and Sony are both developing their business model in a way that ties the readers to their devices; DRM ensures you need a Sony Reader to read books sold by Sony and a Kindle to read Amazon books. Thus, the largest hardware vendors in particular are probably going to be the hardest to wean off of the technology. Unfortunately, I am afraid the book industry is going to have to learn the same way the music industry did; the hard way. Yes, there are some publishers (Baen chief amongst them) that recognize that it is against their interests to DRM books. That being said, there are plenty of others who fear that if they remove DRM, that in the future only one book will be sold and then everyone will read copies of it. That being said, the biggest problem right now is that Amazon and Sony are both developing their business model in a way that ties the readers to their devices; DRM ensures you need a Sony Reader to read books sold by Sony and a Kindle to read Amazon books.

Thus, the largest hardware vendors in particular are probably going to be the hardest to wean off of the technology.

]]> By: Court http://www.teleread.com/drm/sony-drm-free-to-itunes-time-for-e-books-also-to-drop-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-951782 Court Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:49:05 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/11/sony-drm-free-to-itunes-time-for-e-books-also-to-drop-protection/#comment-951782 Absolutely DRM should be dropped from ebooks. I see DRM as an attempt to apply the old business model to a shiny new phenomenon. The first major publisher / ebook maker who drops DRM is going to very well for themselves, it seems to me. I'm hoping it will be Amazon (since I've got a Kindle) but whoever it is, I think plenty of people (for instance, people who frequent 2nd hand bookstores) will get switched on very fast. These days, people expect free as a matter of course. Sooner or later the publishers, like the record companies before them, are going to have to face that reality. Absolutely DRM should be dropped from ebooks. I see DRM as an attempt to apply the old business model to a shiny new phenomenon. The first major publisher / ebook maker who drops DRM is going to very well for themselves, it seems to me. I’m hoping it will be Amazon (since I’ve got a Kindle) but whoever it is, I think plenty of people (for instance, people who frequent 2nd hand bookstores) will get switched on very fast. These days, people expect free as a matter of course. Sooner or later the publishers, like the record companies before them, are going to have to face that reality.

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