TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » DRM http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 21 May 2013 18:09:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Congress to Consider DMCA Anti-Circumvention Reform…But Probably Not Very Hard http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/congress-to-consider-dmca-anti-circumvention-reformbut-probably-not-very-hard/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/congress-to-consider-dmca-anti-circumvention-reformbut-probably-not-very-hard/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 02:40:22 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/?p=84709 Well, it’s that time of decade again. Someone in Congress has finally—or, rather, once again—taken note of how the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions step all over consumer rights and introduced legislation to try to balance the scales. Ars Technica reports that three Democrats and a Republican, including California rep Zoe Lofgren, have introduced the Unlocking Technology [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/congress-to-consider-dmca-anti-circumvention-reformbut-probably-not-very-hard/feed/ 2 Happy International Day Against DRM! http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/happy-international-day-against-drm/ http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/happy-international-day-against-drm/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 19:05:59 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=84378 Honestly, I hadn’t even heard about this until I woke up this morning and checked my phone, but apparently today—that’s Friday, May 3, 2013—is something of a holiday in the digital publishing community. It’s the fifth annual International Day Against DRM. Huh. The organization behind the holiday—which in reality is more of an awareness-raising movement—is known [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/happy-international-day-against-drm/feed/ 0 One year later, Tor Books reflects on going DRM-free http://www.teleread.com/drm/tor-books-reflections-on-going-drm-free-one-year-later/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/tor-books-reflections-on-going-drm-free-one-year-later/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:30:53 +0000 Susan Lulgjuraj http://www.teleread.com/?p=84207 Piracy is the dirty word that companies like to throw around when it comes to digital rights management, or DRM. Many publishers and even retailers use DRM in an effort to avoid having their books stolen on the Internet. One year ago, Tor, a sci-fi and fantasy imprint of Macmillan, dropped DRM from all its [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/tor-books-reflections-on-going-drm-free-one-year-later/feed/ 1 My DRM-Free Year, Month 4: The Internet Archive and my first DIY http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/my-drm-free-year-month-4-the-internet-archive-and-my-first-diy/ http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/my-drm-free-year-month-4-the-internet-archive-and-my-first-diy/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:19:44 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=84153 I am four months into my DRM-free year, and so far have spent just a fraction of my usual book budget. In my highest year—the year agency pricing came out, and I binged in preparation—I spent $1,300, for an average of $108 per month. This year, I am down to less than $20 per month, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/my-drm-free-year-month-4-the-internet-archive-and-my-first-diy/feed/ 1 My DRM-Free Year, Month 3: Read an E-Book Week http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-3-read-an-e-book-week/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-3-read-an-e-book-week/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:02:22 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=82167 For this third month of my DRM-free year, the big event was Read an E-Book Week. I have to admit, I was a little disappointed with the offerings. Most authors seemed to simply re-list whatever they had last year—some of these books didn’t interest me then or now, and others I had already explored. A [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-3-read-an-e-book-week/feed/ 0 Kobo’s response to the WH Smith DRM situation http://www.teleread.com/drm/kobos-response-to-the-wh-smith-drm-situation/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/kobos-response-to-the-wh-smith-drm-situation/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:13:20 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=81844 Yesterday morning, we brought to your attention a rather unusual situation that had been taking place in the WH Smith e-retail store: Kobo e-books that were meant to be DRM-free had been listed on the WH Smith site as having digital rights management software added. Even books that had been authored by Cory Doctorow, perhaps [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/kobos-response-to-the-wh-smith-drm-situation/feed/ 1 Updated: WH Smith adding DRM to Cory Doctorow books, and others’ http://www.teleread.com/drm/wh-smith-adding-drm-to-cory-doctorow-books-and-others/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/wh-smith-adding-drm-to-cory-doctorow-books-and-others/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:28:04 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=81724 Could there possibly be a modern author better known for his extremely anti-DRM stance than Cory Doctorow? Certainly not many, at any rate. But Kobo owners visiting the WH Smith e-retail store and attempting to buy Doctorow’s books would be forgiven for thinking otherwise: They’ve all been saddled with digital rights management. (Scroll down for the incriminating screen shot.) [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/wh-smith-adding-drm-to-cory-doctorow-books-and-others/feed/ 3 Digital manga site JManga to shut down, take all customers’ purchases with it http://www.teleread.com/drm/digital-manga-site-jmanga-to-shut-down-take-all-customers-purchases-with-it/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/digital-manga-site-jmanga-to-shut-down-take-all-customers-purchases-with-it/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/?p=81703 DRM opponents should be sending love letters to the Japanese Digital Comics Association. As of March 26th, its “streaming manga” website JManga (which I covered here before) will stop selling new manga—and as of the end of May, manga already purchased will become unavailable to view. And there is no way to download and back [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/digital-manga-site-jmanga-to-shut-down-take-all-customers-purchases-with-it/feed/ 1 The SimCity Debacle: Another lesson in why DRM is a bad idea http://www.teleread.com/drm/the-sim-city-debacle-another-lesson-in-why-drm-is-a-bad-idea/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/the-sim-city-debacle-another-lesson-in-why-drm-is-a-bad-idea/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:00:14 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=81478 For anyone who is still not convinced that DRM, as a concept, is a terrible idea, the recent Sim City debacle illustrates why. The short version is, software publisher EA so feared ‘piracy’ of the latest Sim City incarnation that they crippled the game to require a live Internet connection (to its authentication servers) at [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/the-sim-city-debacle-another-lesson-in-why-drm-is-a-bad-idea/feed/ 5 My DRM-Free Year, Month 2: All Hail Indie Amazon Authors! http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-2-all-hail-indie-amazon-authors/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-2-all-hail-indie-amazon-authors/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:00:56 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=80090 The story of Joanna Cabot's DRM-free year continues with the dispatch below, from FEB 2013. JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC It’s been a busy month for me, work-wise, so I haven’t had that much reading time—I logged [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-2-all-hail-indie-amazon-authors/feed/ 4 Easy DRM For Self-Published Authors? Really? http://www.teleread.com/drm/easy-drm-for-self-published-authors-really/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/easy-drm-for-self-published-authors-really/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:00:15 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=78047 Well here’s a terrible idea. DBW just posted a press release about Edition Guard, which brings Adobe DRM to indie authors and small presses who want to sell books direct from their website. Have we learned nothing in recent years? DRM doesn’t stop piracy. It’s ridiculously easy to crack. All DRM does is punish non-tech [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/easy-drm-for-self-published-authors-really/feed/ 12 My DRM-Free Year, Month 1: Library Books and Delphi Classics http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-1-library-books-and-delphi-classics/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-1-library-books-and-delphi-classics/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:30:49 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=77608 At the end of 2012, I made a pledge to limit my e-book spending to only DRM-free e-books this year. I made this pledge for a number of reasons, the primary two being that firstly, since the whole rise/fall of agency pricing debacle, the books I want to read seem to be unreasonably expensive, and [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-1-library-books-and-delphi-classics/feed/ 6 It is Now Illegal to Break DRM on E-Books in Canada! http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/it-is-now-illegal-to-break-drm-on-e-books-in-canada/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/it-is-now-illegal-to-break-drm-on-e-books-in-canada/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:52:52 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=74344 From the inimitable Michael Giest comes the news that the controversial Bill C-11 (aka the copyright reform bill), took effect in Canada this week. The bill introduces a host of new consumer-oriented provisions including fair dealing provisions for education, satire and parody; a fair dealing provision for time shifting, format shifting and making of backup [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/it-is-now-illegal-to-break-drm-on-e-books-in-canada/feed/ 10 An Open Letter to E-Book Retailers: Let’s have a return to common sense http://www.teleread.com/drm/an-open-letter-to-e-book-retailers-lets-have-a-return-to-common-sense/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/an-open-letter-to-e-book-retailers-lets-have-a-return-to-common-sense/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:45:06 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=73736 Dear E-Book Retailers: I’ve read so many wacky news stories this week that my head is spinning. There was the Random House thing—the idea that a publisher actually had to explain to its paying customers whether they owned their bought books or not just boggles my mind. Then there was the Norwegian lady who had all [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/an-open-letter-to-e-book-retailers-lets-have-a-return-to-common-sense/feed/ 35 My 5 Favorite Sources for DRM-Free E-Books, part 2 of 2 http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-5-favorite-sources-for-drm-free-e-books-part-2-of-2/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-5-favorite-sources-for-drm-free-e-books-part-2-of-2/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:00:39 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=73357 From Part 1: I love DRM-free books! I know that for most people, DRM is an issue they might not think about often; if their books work, they’re happy. But for many more experienced e-book users, it’s an issue to care about. Unless, that is, you buy and read books that are DRM-free. The books referenced [...]

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