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Rowling to release Harry Potter ebooks DRM-free: Radiohead moment or just desperate to sell more boo
Kes: Not that I'm not perfectly fine with authors trying to find a way to sell more books, but dressing it up as her trusting her fans and the other malarky included in this completely uncritical article
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/harry-potter-radiohead-moment/
is absurd:
Unlike artists such as Radiohead and others who trust their fans to reimburse the artists or author for DRM-free material, Rowling has always been extremely hostile to the ebook format and, rather than placing any blame upon the big publishers, has in her statements equated ebooks with piracy, thereby pointing the finger at her fans as criminals, not the publishers.
Releasing ebooks DRM-free isn't a trust issue anymore, if it ever was. Releasing ebooks DRM-free makes financial sense, as people who buy ebooks want to be able to read their ebooks on more than one device.
And these articles which are puffing Rowling up as trusting her fans, that's just bullshit which counts on consumers having the memory capacity of a goldfish.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/harry-potter-radiohead-moment/
is absurd:
Unlike artists such as Radiohead and others who trust their fans to reimburse the artists or author for DRM-free material, Rowling has always been extremely hostile to the ebook format and, rather than placing any blame upon the big publishers, has in her statements equated ebooks with piracy, thereby pointing the finger at her fans as criminals, not the publishers.
Releasing ebooks DRM-free isn't a trust issue anymore, if it ever was. Releasing ebooks DRM-free makes financial sense, as people who buy ebooks want to be able to read their ebooks on more than one device.
And these articles which are puffing Rowling up as trusting her fans, that's just bullshit which counts on consumers having the memory capacity of a goldfish.