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(No, I haven’t tried this, but do a Google search on “removing DRM” and you’ll see what I mean.) Thus, it’s not hard for pirates to circumvent DRM. First, removing DRM is ridiculously easy for anyone with a reasonable amount of technical expertise, and there are even tools to make it easy for someone with little expertise.

The problem with that argument is that it doesn’t hold water. Publisher and industry estimates of the amount of lost revenue vary, but they’re all pretty high. The disadvantage for publishers in eliminating DRM, according to industry claims, is that it makes piracy easy, resulting in lost revenue for publisher and author. Forward-compatibility will probably not be a problem either, again because conversion tools will no doubt be available.ĭRM chains your books to a few devices at best. You never have to worry about the publisher or retailer going out of business or yanking the book from you for unknown reasons, as has occasionally happened to purchasers of Kindle books.

Thus, DRM-free books are platform-neutral. With tools like Calibre, you can even convert it for use on e-readers of other formats. You can use it on any device capable of reading it. The advantage of DRM-free books for purchasers is obvious: you own the book it isn’t licensed to you. So Amazon would still have a large customer base: its existing Kindle customers. On the other hand, any change in DRM policy won’t affect books bought prior to the change, meaning customers with a large investment in books for one platform (Kindle, Nook, or ADE ePub) still wouldn’t be able migrate their books to another device without breaking the law by removing the DRM. The advantage is that DRM-free books aren’t as tied to a specific reader device, meaning Kindle customers could purchase books elsewhere to use on their Kindle (assuming the books are available in mobi format.) This also frees publishers to sell books more easily from their own websites. Eliminating DRM has been proposed as one way that publishers could break or at least stave off the stranglehold Amazon holds or is attempting to establish on the ebook business.

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