eBookNewser Wants to Know What You Think: Are We Being Too Quiet?
David Pogue’s email newsletter today is about eBooks, specifically the issue of whether they ought to have DRM. Basically, Pogue says he’s torn on the issue, because unprotected media files encourage piracy but also act as advertisements for the purchase of those same books or songs. Ok. We’ve been over this. But there’s another point raised in the column that maybe publishing ought to pay attention to.
Pogue quotes one of his readers, who has written in to him to say he wonders why book people aren’t complaining about copy protected book files the way music lovers did about DRM’d MP3s: “Where are the upset people? I never see reports on how e-book copy protection is bad for consumers.
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