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Re:One Year Later, the Results of Tor Books UK Going DRM-Free by MichaelGG on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @02:45AM (#5630733)
I remember someone pointing out that the DRM on books was massively, hugely successful to one party: Amazon. Imagine if all publishers had jumped in on distributing mobi and epub from the start - Amazon would have far less hold.

It was trivial for me to move from Amazon MP3 to Google Music (and back, if I want). It'd be far more work to get off Kindle. Even if tomorrow another company came out with a far superior device than the Kindle Paperwhite, how many users could just jump ship? Ripping the DRM off is a pain, even if it just requires some googling and downloading into another program.

Publishers getting off DRM is a good thing. Just remember that the real reason is they're terrified that Amazon holds the keys and are regretting their decision to willing hand things over to Amazon.

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Re:One Year Later, the Results of Tor Books UK Going DRM-Free by pja on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @05:11AM (#5631114)
Almost certainly Charlie Stross. (cstross here, and elsewhere)

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understa...

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Re:One Year Later, the Results of Tor Books UK Going DRM-Free by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @07:04AM (#5631411)
When iTunes had DRM on music, it was the same, but with Apple/iPod. Luckily about 3 years ago or so, iTunes finally offered DRM-free versions of songs, and I spent £50 or so to upgrade my entire library. Thanks to that, I was able to listen to my music later on my Nintendo 3DS, and now my phone.
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