BEA Show Notes: Publishers Launch: DRM is Genre Fiction Poison

Speaking at the Publishers Launch conference at BookExpo America, Charlie Stross, sci-fi writer and noted proponent of abandoning digital rights management for ebooks, laid out the business case for doing so.

Noting that the issue is at the intersection of culture and technology, Stross, during a panel discussion on DRM, emphasized that DRM technology renders ebooks ephemeral as it locks them into devices that the consumer electronics industry's business model renders obsolete every 12 to 24 months.