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to get rid of DRM is the beginning of the end of the format war e-book

In late April, Tor Books, the worldwide leading publisher of science fiction, and its sister company, UK, Tor UK, has announced that they would be the elimination of management digital rights management (DRM) of all its electronic books for the summer. It was a seismic event in the history of the publishing industry. This is the beginning of the end of DRM, which are used by hardware manufacturers and publishers to limit the use of digital content after the sale. This is good news, if you are a publisher, a writer, a dedicated reader, or someone picking up a book every year or two.

The first thing you should know about e-books with DRM is that it can work.

Like all DRM systems, DRM ebook is that you can distribute a program that opens only in circumstances approved ebooks, and none of the people you send this program is how to fix it it opens for ebooks, whatever the circumstances. Once a user gets the game is over, because that person can intelligently distribute e-books were removed DRM, or programs to eliminate DRM (or both). And since there is no legitimate market for DRM - without actively readers to buy books which are opened only in special circumstances approved - and since the e-book pirates are more convenient and flexible than paid for free editions expel the pirates DRM DRM-locked commercial editions.

Moreover, books are eminently re-scannable. In other words, it is very easy to re-write an ebook DRM locked, or scanning a physical book, or take screenshots of a locked ebook DRM and convert image files resulting text. Google has digitized around 16 million pounds in recent years.

is a solved problem.

bad for business

If you have that drive customer confidence DRM for downloads pirates, that would be pretty bad for publishers. But this is only the most obvious way that DRM is bad for business. Most developed countries have signed the WIPO Treaty of 1996, and have introduced laws making it illegal for anyone other than a supplier of DRM to remove DRM. If Tor is sold one of my books for the Amazon Kindle DRM closed, neither I nor Tor is permitted to remove the DRM. If Amazon requires a higher discount (which Amazon has done with many publishers that their initial offers electronic distribution of books to reach the renegotiation) and Tor want to change your favorite ebook sales to a competitor as Waterstone, to be with their readers is ready to buy your books again.

Because Amazon can not be allowed to take the DRM from their Kindle books, and because it would give a commercial advantage to competitors of the Amazon, it is unlikely to cooperate with Tor this. It is rare for a company willing to cut his throat.

Before, when sales of electronic books have begun to implement, the big publishers were still believers DRM - at least not too skeptical of the claims of suppliers of DRM. They believed that the use of DRM as "better than nothing."

When asked about the competitive implications of providing a check on your business relationships DRM providers, who were optimistic (if not quite derogatory). Perceived "convert" the ebooks as a technical challenge beyond the average buyer of books. In the absence of DRM to make a difference in the market, buyers believed that books have to download and install special software to convert Kindle books to display in a corner (or vice versa), and this collection which is very unlikely.

But only the pervasiveness of DRM that allows you to "convert" eBooks in a technical challenge. Your browser "to" all kinds of graphic formats - GIF, JPEG, PNG, etc. - without having to call your attention. You need to take extraordinary measures and do not know what format the graphics on the screen is currently using. Unless you're a web developer, you probably do not even know what the different formats are, or what their technical differences. And you do not need.

Many publishers have begun their conversion to digital typesetting with QuarkXPress, which was an extraordinarily clumsy, especially in its early days. Quark files are difficult to import

Program, including other versions of Quark. When publishers began to change their composition Adobe InDesign, has spent millions in the conversion, and technical problems with the change of the season until now. But this is an exception not the rule. In most cases, application developers to control the existence of new formats without breaking a sweat. Your word processor, browser, spreadsheet, video player, music player and photo editor can handle a variety of formats Titanic.

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