e-Books without DRM
CNet reports that e-Books are doing pretty well, without Digital Rights Management, that is.
Last year e-Book sales were over 3 million–but struggles with DRM are causing people to turn away from e-Books. From the article:
Bad experiences with heavy-handed DRM have soured many potential customers on e-books, said Mike Violano, vice president and general manager of eReader, which equips its titles with a security key based on the credit card number used to purchase it. The approach give wide latitude to the original buyer while effectively thwarting illegal copying, he said.
My own experiences with trying to download an e-book for viewing (through Baker & Taylor’s ED e-books) was none-too-heartening. It took me 20 minutes, and I had to download 2 different things (besides the book itself), to get the e-book onto my PC. Granted, the next time I want to do it, I won’t have to go through that whole process, but it was enough of a pain in the keister to make me not want to fuss with it. I’ll just read the darn book online instead.
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