Comments on: Social DRM used by Wiley’s WROX imprint for chapters on demand

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:57:19 +0000

Thought: Social DRM might be a good solution for larger publishers with the infrastructure to implement it—while smaller publishers simply avoided DRM. But would implementation be that difficult? Bill McCoy picked up the idea from The Pragmatic Programmer—hardly a giant conglomerate. Perhaps third parties could handle administration; costs would still be much lower than for traditional DRM. Meanwhile thanks to Rob for sharing his perspective. David

By: Rob Preece

Rob Preece — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:14:18 +0000

I’ll be interested to hear how this works–and whether customers find the dropping of traditional DRM to be helpful. As many of you know, I don’t use DRM on BooksForABuck.com books, but because I offer books in multiple formats (a customer can download any or all of them, depending on their device requirements), I’ve seen social DRM as a administrative non-starter.

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com