Sony's Steve Haber Inspires Over 70 Comments
There’s much debate raging on the blogosphere about Steve Haber’s talk at the eBook Summit. Yesterday Mike Masnick of the blog Techdirt wrote a short post about a couple of Haber’s points–particularly his statement that $9.99 is too low a price for eBooks, and his assertion that DRM is necessary and works well to help content creators make money. Masnick takes serious issue with both points, but more interesting is the growing list of comments on the post, which as of this writing is 77 comments long.
Some of Masnick’s commentators simply agree or disagree with what he’s written, but others offer far more unusual things, such as someone posting as “TheStupidOne,” who is ready to take DRM control into his own hands: “I do not have an ebook reader (though I’m thinking about getting a nook) however I was unwilling to unless I could have DRM free books and backups...
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