BEA Show Notes: Publishers Launch: DRM is Genre Fiction Poison
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Author John Scalzi, speaking later in the session, said, "Dropping DRM makes it easier to be an author, easier to be a reader and easier to be a retailer. All of these things make sense."
Earlier in the session, author and blogger Cory Doctorow said that DRM breaks the social contract of books.
"We are the people of the book," he said. "We know each other by the books that line our walls. We know what the book bargain is. The ancient compact of book ownership states that when you buy a book, you own the book. The public's end of the bargain is that we as a society treasure books. DRM reduces books to mere objects of commerce."
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