Comments on: New IDPF board member: Ken Brooks of Cengage Learning http://www.teleread.com/drm/new-idpf-board-member-ken-brooks-of-cengage-learning/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/drm/new-idpf-board-member-ken-brooks-of-cengage-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-971036 David Rothman Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:53:39 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/26/new-idpf-board-member-ken-brooks-of-cengage-learning/#comment-971036 My fears, too, BG. But give Ken Brooks a chance. Maybe he'll show some open-mindedness here. The real fix would be in more modern biz models, as opposed to DRM. Meanwhile let's hope that the traditional textbook mindset doesn't contaminate other areas of publishing. That could cost the industry plenty in lost sales to consumers fed up with DRM. I remain skeptical of the "standardization" efforts. If it happens, there may well be complexities and gotchas to torture consumers. Thanks, David My fears, too, BG. But give Ken Brooks a chance. Maybe he’ll show some open-mindedness here. The real fix would be in more modern biz models, as opposed to DRM. Meanwhile let’s hope that the traditional textbook mindset doesn’t contaminate other areas of publishing. That could cost the industry plenty in lost sales to consumers fed up with DRM. I remain skeptical of the “standardization” efforts. If it happens, there may well be complexities and gotchas to torture consumers.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: Book Guy http://www.teleread.com/drm/new-idpf-board-member-ken-brooks-of-cengage-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-970429 Book Guy Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:37:32 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/26/new-idpf-board-member-ken-brooks-of-cengage-learning/#comment-970429 I don't think having a textbook publisher on a forum will help DRM issues. Text publishers are more likely to push for more stringent requirements. I don’t think having a textbook publisher on a forum will help DRM issues. Text publishers are more likely to push for more stringent requirements.

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