Comments on: Why Kindle’s DRM Free-for-All Is Bad for Consumers and for Amazon http://medialoper.com/why-kindles-drm-free-for-all-is-bad-for-consumers-and-for-amazon/ Chasing the long tail of digital media Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:02:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: tucker http://medialoper.com/why-kindles-drm-free-for-all-is-bad-for-consumers-and-for-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-28377 tucker Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:09:24 +0000 http://medialoper.com/?p=3889#comment-28377 Lets hope they don't abandon DRM. Copyright law is losing public approval, and once that goes out, so does livelihood. I say this as someone who writes, we need to protect the intellectual property of writers (cough, cough, GOOGLE) in order to allow writing to exist at all. Books have never been victims of piracy the same way music was pre-iTunes, though. Still, amazon is doing a great thing, yes they need to standardize their policy, but remember, the publisher isn't in as crappy a situation as the record label was--Amazon definitely has less clout over them. But since amazon delivers the book to the customer and people love this service, why shouldn't they take 65%? I bet they'll increase publishers' sales by a third, which would more than cover it. Lets hope they don’t abandon DRM. Copyright law is losing public approval, and once that goes out, so does livelihood. I say this as someone who writes, we need to protect the intellectual property of writers (cough, cough, GOOGLE) in order to allow writing to exist at all. Books have never been victims of piracy the same way music was pre-iTunes, though. Still, amazon is doing a great thing, yes they need to standardize their policy, but remember, the publisher isn’t in as crappy a situation as the record label was–Amazon definitely has less clout over them. But since amazon delivers the book to the customer and people love this service, why shouldn’t they take 65%? I bet they’ll increase publishers’ sales by a third, which would more than cover it.

]]> By: How To Fight eBook Piracy | Medialoper http://medialoper.com/why-kindles-drm-free-for-all-is-bad-for-consumers-and-for-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-28264 How To Fight eBook Piracy | Medialoper Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:35:32 +0000 http://medialoper.com/?p=3889#comment-28264 [...] piracy is by making it easier to buy a product than it is to steal the same product. Despite my many reservations about Kindle’s proprietary DRM, Amazon has made the Kindle book buying experience [...] [...] piracy is by making it easier to buy a product than it is to steal the same product. Despite my many reservations about Kindle’s proprietary DRM, Amazon has made the Kindle book buying experience [...]

]]> By: Between Brackets » Blog Archive » Kindleicious! http://medialoper.com/why-kindles-drm-free-for-all-is-bad-for-consumers-and-for-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-27973 Between Brackets » Blog Archive » Kindleicious! Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:07:41 +0000 http://medialoper.com/?p=3889#comment-27973 [...] a couple of posts on the web that cover some issue with the Kindle. And many are [...] [...] a couple of posts on the web that cover some issue with the Kindle. And many are [...]

]]> By: The Daily Square – Three Longers Later Edition | Booksquare http://medialoper.com/why-kindles-drm-free-for-all-is-bad-for-consumers-and-for-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-27929 The Daily Square – Three Longers Later Edition | Booksquare Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:30:10 +0000 http://medialoper.com/?p=3889#comment-27929 [...] Why Kindle’s DRM Free-for-All Is Bad for Consumers and for AmazonDear Amazon: it would really help if you could teach your customer service people how to respond to questions without confusing customers because those customers then post the conversation on their blogs and then when you change your answers, it just gets worse and worse for you. Oh, and DRM free-for-all is bad for consumers and you. [...] [...] Why Kindle’s DRM Free-for-All Is Bad for Consumers and for AmazonDear Amazon: it would really help if you could teach your customer service people how to respond to questions without confusing customers because those customers then post the conversation on their blogs and then when you change your answers, it just gets worse and worse for you. Oh, and DRM free-for-all is bad for consumers and you. [...]

]]> By: Kirk http://medialoper.com/why-kindles-drm-free-for-all-is-bad-for-consumers-and-for-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-27927 Kirk Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:45:17 +0000 http://medialoper.com/?p=3889#comment-27927 @K There will be plenty of competition for Amazon in the ebook market. Unfortunately, most of that will be locked down by DRM. The major publishers aren't about to sell DRM-free...yet. I expect to see this play out exactly the way it did with music. Eventually publishers will dump DRM when they realize the impact it's had on the marketplace. @K There will be plenty of competition for Amazon in the ebook market. Unfortunately, most of that will be locked down by DRM. The major publishers aren’t about to sell DRM-free…yet.

I expect to see this play out exactly the way it did with music. Eventually publishers will dump DRM when they realize the impact it’s had on the marketplace.

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