[bookshare-discuss] Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection. . .
- From: lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:35:28 -0700
Obviously you're a science fiction fan. No one picked up a sense of amazement
like Robert Donley, but we are both dating ourselves by knowing about him.
Many of those old (in time, not age) NLS readers were something special. -----
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from: "duane iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx>
to: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
date: 2008/03/09 18:15:43
subject: [bookshare-discuss] comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy
Protection. . .
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> Beginning in late 1999, Jim Baen began selling books on the Webscription
> service of Baen Books. He never used DRM, didn't believe in it, sold the
> books in a half a dozen formats usable to anyone who had a computer with a
> word processor even if the only thing you had was internet explorer.
> Eric Flint has been arguing in every issue of the online Science Fiction
> Magazine Jim Baen's Universe against Mindless copyright restrictions and DRM.
> Messer's Baen and Flint paved the way. it's nice to see other publishers
> slowly coming around to their way of thinking. My guess is that dropping DRM
> will actually increase the sale of audio books over what it would have been
> with DRM left in place.
> My guess also is that many sighted audio book listeners will become devotees
> of an audio book reader and may began buying books as much by who reads the
> book as who wrote it.
> How many of us old blind guys would order any book read by Robert donley just
> because Mr. Donley was such a grate reader.
> But as DRM dies, I hope it dies: And more and more books become available in
> Blind Friendly Formats we have Jim Baen to thank probably more then anyone
> out side the Blindness Community.
> Old Jim did it for the money. of course that's why Bell invented the
> Telephone and Edison invented the record player.
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> Sincerely Yours:
> Duane Iverson
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