DRM, Digital Content and the Consumer Experience: Lessons Learned from the Music Industry
Posted by Kirk Biglione in DRM on Mar 01, 2010
This is a screencast of the DRM presentations I gave last week at O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change for Publishing conference.
Very insightfull presentation! I’m currently looking into DRM and watermarking for a European consortium of audiovisual archives (the project is called European Film Gateway) and will be writing a recommendation on this technology. Links to good articles are very welcome!
Excellent exposition of the history and facts of life concerning DRM for music and now ebooks. From my roughly 15 years in the optical media industry I can vouch for the authenticity of Kirk’s analysis. I’ve posted the link to this presentation on the forum for my grad school class on digital media, and I will be commenting on it at greater length in my blog soon.
Brilliant. Fascinating.
Am in the process of negotiating self-publishing at the moment and battling with formats. It is all much more complicated than it should be.
My followers beg me not to include DRM. In fact, ‘promise I can buy your book for *insert device*’ followed by a tweet or comment about how much DRM sucks is the second most common question I receive about my book (after ‘when can I buy your book?’) Thinking back over comments, the two devices I think people will read my work on will be Kindle and Sony Reader.
I’ve put this vid up on my blog – http://bit.ly/96bmR0 – and tweeted it up for you.
Thanks for such a thorough presentation.
Rebecca
@rebeccawoodhead on Twitter
Rebecca – you’re right about ebook formats being much more complicated than it needs to be. And, of course, DRM only makes it that much more complex.
As far as device support goes, I suggest you publish your ebook in three formats: ePub, mobi, and PDF.
mobi works on the Kindle, ePub works on the Sony and just about everything else, and some people still prefer PDF (although I expect that we’ll see a change in format preference as consumers become more familiar with ePub).
Thanks for the tweets and links!