E-Books and DRM
Ed Foster,
Feb 26, 2004
Would you pay hardcover prices for a book that will be throws away after one read? Of course not, and it is this that publishers do not understand. This article is a good introduction to some of the issues surrounding eBooks (though I would take issue with some of the statements expressed by Adobe spokesperson Shafath Syed). But the comments are the better part of the article, so don't skip them. "The key issues are (1) e-books aren't books and (2) most publishers simply don't understand the technology. A book is both data and a display medium that can last for centuries. Books are inexpensive and easy to read, but bulky, hard to store and hard to search. E-books are data. They are displayed on expensive devices that have a useful life of two to four years, with disk reformats/rebuilds perhaps yearly."
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