Dear reader, As you may know, DRM stands for “Digital Rights Management.” It’s a copy protection scheme designed to prevent piracy. While few would disagree that authors deserve compensation for their hard work, the problem with DRM is that it treats law-abiding customers like criminals. DRM controls how, where and when a reader reads books. Oh, and then there’s the small… (more…)
Category Archives: DRM
How DRM weakens publishers’ negotiating leverage with retailers
This post originally appeared on BoingBoing - By Cory Doctorow at 7:23 am Monday, Apr 2 My latest Publishers Weekly column is “A Whip to Beat Us With,” which describes how publishers who allow retailers to add DRM to their products hand those retailers a commercial advantage to exercise over the publishers themselves. Jim C. Hines’s e-books are marketed both through a big publisher and… (more…)
DRM-free ebooks
Perhaps, dear reader, you sometimes wonder where you can find DRM-free ebooks. Baen Books (link to Google+) sells only DRM free ebooks. This might be very interesting for some of you, so I decided to share this knowledge wit you. I, for one, am looking forward to a DRM free world! Baen Ebooks Baen’s eBook marketplace. eBooks with no DRM,… (more…)
Publishers: victims of their own DRM
Dear reader, I have never considered DRM (Digital Rights Management) a good thing on ebooks. It is annoying when something goes slightly wrong, it adds to the cost of creating an ebook, and “out there” on the big internet are many tools available to remove the DRM-code that ebook publishers have so painstakingly added to their ebooks. Today I learnt… (more…)
Have you paid your Adobe tax today?
As found on The Digital Reader: Have you paid your Adobe tax today? August 17th, 2011 by Nate Hoffelder I was writing the post earlier about the new ebookstore and it inspired me to pen this little rant about DRM on ebooks. I’m going to focus today on Adobe because that’s one of the dominant form of DRM on the ebook… (more…)
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