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[News] Woman Shows World Why E-Book DRM is a Total Disaster

  • Subject: [News] Woman Shows World Why E-Book DRM is a Total Disaster
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:43 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Despite Awful Customer Service, Woman Felt Forced To Buy Another Sony
eBook Reader... Thanks To DRM

,----[ Quote ]
| After all of this, she went out and bought 
| another Sony ebook reader. She noted that she 
| would have gladly purchased a competing 
| product "but would have lost access to the 
| library she's spent hundreds of dollars 
| building up." And there it is. The DRM tax at 
| work creating serious lock-in and consumer 
| problems. At least in this case, due to the 
| publicity from Consumerist, Sony agreed to 
| reimburse the woman, but you shouldn't have 
| to get a major publication to tell your story 
| first to get that kind of resolution.
`----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20091230/0956377548.shtml

Fifth Period Is Facebook

,----[ Quote ]
| Why schools should stop blocking social 
| network sites.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2239560/pagenum/all/


Recent:

Kindle Total Cost of Ownership: Calculating the DRM Tax

,----[ Quote ]
| There is one other problem with DRM protected
| books. When the reading device reaches its end
| of life, you have to assume all the content you
| purchased will be lost. If, for instance, I
| went with a Kindle, all of the content I
| purchase can be used only on devices supported
| by Amazon.
|
| When, several years later, it comes time to
| replace that Kindle I may get a new Kindle --
| but I can't assume that. Maybe somebody else
| will have a better device at that time. Or,
| maybe Amazon went bankrupt or evil or stupid
| and I need to switch to another vendor. There
| are any number of reasons I might like to
| switch my e-reader. If I do, I have to assume I
| won't be able to use any of the content I
| purchased for the Kindle.
|
| Thanks to DRM, when my e-reader reaches its end
| of life, I will have to pay to acquire
| replacement books for the material that's
| locked out of the new e-reader. I call the
| amount of that purchase the "DRM tax" -- an
| added cost imposed by DRM restrictions.
`----

http://www.unicom.com/blog/entry/622


Hackers break Amazon's Kindle DRM

,----[ Quote ]
| The hack began as an open challenge in this
| (translated) forum for participants to come up
| with a way to make ebooks published in Amazon's
| proprietary format display on competing
| readers. Eight days later, a user going by the
| handle Labba had a working program that did
| just that.
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/23/amazon_kindle_hacked/


The secret behind the Kindle's best-selling e-books: They're not for sale

,----[ Quote ]
| One big reason readers choose e-books over ink
| and paper versions: The digital ones are
| cheaper.
|
| That wasn't the case when e-books first
| appeared a decade ago. But Amazon has made a
| point of selling its Kindle titles at a
| discount to physical editions, even if it
| means losing money.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10422538-93.html
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