Digital Rights Management

eBook Piracy May Have Unexpected Benefits

CBC News | Dan Misener, | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Ereaders, Drm, Kindle, Digital Rights Management, Oreilly Media, Watermarks, Digital Watermarks, Ebook Piracy, Amazon, Ebooks, Tablets, Books News

Back in 2009, O'Leary did this for one publisher, O'Reilly Media, which publishes technical books. Surprisingly, he found that sales actually increase...

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DRM is a Business Decision, Not a Moral Decision

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bittorrent, Iambik, Publishing, Piracy, Fielsharing, Digital Rights Management, Books, Audio, Drm, Audiobooks, Media, Audiobook, Media News
Hugh McGuire

When we started building our new audiobook publishing company, iambik, we made an early decision: no digital rights management (DRM). (*See below for ...

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Protect eBooks Or Trust Customers To Do The Right Thing?

Mark Coker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drm, Print Books, Zombies, Digital-Rights-Management, Future of Books, Ebooks, John McAfee, Shareware, Business-Models-for-Digital-Content, Books News
Mark Coker

Publishers should trust customers. Most people are honest and well-intentioned. Let's educate them about their social obligation to financially support the author, publisher and retailer who helped bring them this book.

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Wired Parodies MPAA, RIAA: Imagine Handbag Industry Association Of America

Wired | David Kravets | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drm, Mpaa, Digital Rights Management, Riaa, Business News

For starters, handbags would only work in one country. All of a handbag's contents would fall from the bottom at a border crossing, or while on an int...

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