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Dumb DRM arguments: ebooks are not music

I’d like to celebrate read-an-ebook week with something positive, but I don’t have anything even half-prepared except some thoughts about DRM. That’s bad enough, but I won’t even be arguing against DRM for ebooks. I certainly won’t argue for it — I’m against the idea on principle, so if I thought it through and concluded [...]

DRM and eBooks: no no no no no

Oh boy. This started as a small exercise in venting and turned into a full-scale rant. At this point I don’t even know if there’s any content left to it except “Grr, big publishers only sell ebooks in formats I don’t want.” It would be a shame to waste all that typing though, so here [...]