Why Readers Hate DRM: The Short Version | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
"I received an email today from an author who has been networking a little among fledgling backlist self-publishers, and she mentioned a question had come up about DRM. She had made a comment about how most readers hate it, and the question came up: why?"
1) DRM removes rights that users have with paper books, so they resent paying the same price and getting less.
2) DRM creates artificial restrictions that limit the ability of users to exercise their fair, legal enjoyment of content they legally purchase.
3) DRM can make users pay multiple times for the same content.
4) DRM can leave users reliant on outside agencies in order to enjoy their books.
5) DRM forces users to rely on buggy or difficult software they may not need or want.
6) DRM is an extra cost to the book—there are development and implementation costs to it that are incorporated into the cost of the book and are passed on to the end user.
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