Comments on: DRM and the new wireless e-book competition: The more, the gloomier for consumers? http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/14/drm-and-the-new-wireless-e-book-competition-the-more-the-gloomier-for-consumers/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:46:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/14/drm-and-the-new-wireless-e-book-competition-the-more-the-gloomier-for-consumers/comment-page-1/#comment-1037582 David Rothman Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:46:57 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/14/drm-and-the-new-wireless-e-book-competition-the-more-the-gloomier-for-consumers/#comment-1037582 Hi, Steve. Let's hope you're right. I think this one is still undecided--even though one of the possible rivals, B&N, made a terrific move in buying an outfit as enlightened as Fictionwise is about DRM. Thanks. David Hi, Steve. Let’s hope you’re right. I think this one is still undecided–even though one of the possible rivals, B&N, made a terrific move in buying an outfit as enlightened as Fictionwise is about DRM. Thanks. David

]]> By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/14/drm-and-the-new-wireless-e-book-competition-the-more-the-gloomier-for-consumers/comment-page-1/#comment-1037565 Steve Jordan Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:58:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/14/drm-and-the-new-wireless-e-book-competition-the-more-the-gloomier-for-consumers/#comment-1037565 The AT article suggests fairly thorough research into everything... EXCEPT the e-book reader field. Suggesting that more readers will likely mean more DRM and local-locked devices is unrealistic and unsupported by the facts at hand. It is more likely that other reader producers, in competing with giants like Amazon and Sony, would make their devices more consumer-friendly with lower prices, no DRM and more open and varied online access systems (a simple swappable chip would allow a device to be switched from CDMA to GSM as the owner wished, just as they do with unencumbered phones, solving that problem neatly). AT must be expecting all the experienced e-book makers to simply go away, to be replaced by devices made by the likes of Dell, Toshiba and Microsoft... The AT article suggests fairly thorough research into everything… EXCEPT the e-book reader field. Suggesting that more readers will likely mean more DRM and local-locked devices is unrealistic and unsupported by the facts at hand. It is more likely that other reader producers, in competing with giants like Amazon and Sony, would make their devices more consumer-friendly with lower prices, no DRM and more open and varied online access systems (a simple swappable chip would allow a device to be switched from CDMA to GSM as the owner wished, just as they do with unencumbered phones, solving that problem neatly).

AT must be expecting all the experienced e-book makers to simply go away, to be replaced by devices made by the likes of Dell, Toshiba and Microsoft…

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