The Role of DRM in the eBook World

Adam Engst (TidBITS Publishing Inc.)

One of the most contentious areas in the ebook publishing world is digital rights management. Everyone agrees that authors and publishers should be paid for their content, but not everyone agrees that DRM is the best approach to achieving the goal.

In this panel discussion, we’ll explore whether DRM actually reduces copying, if copying is in fact detrimental to sales, and the best ways to implement DRM for ebooks.

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Adam Engst

TidBITS Publishing Inc.

Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the longest-running Internet-based newsletters, and of the Take Control electronic book series. He has authored many best-selling technical books and numerous magazine articles. His innovations include the creation of the first advertising program to support an Internet publication in 1992 and the first flat-rate accounts for graphical Internet access in 1993. He regularly ranks among the top five most influential people in the Macintosh industry and was named one of MacDirectory’s top ten visionaries. He has been turned into an action figure.

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