DRM-free eBooks

Here's how Tim O'Reilly answers this question: http://www.forbes.co...teal-this.html. But you should also read Andrew Savikas (http://blogs.oreilly.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=drm-free&blog_id=40).

But just from a practicial perspective: Do you really think you can create unbreakable DRM, or afford the legal costs and time you'll incur going after pirates? And of course, once your DRM is broken--and it will be, nearly immediately if your content is something people want--your content will be available for free anyhow, and you will have inconvenienced your paying customers for nothing.

So...if you can't stop piracy with DRM, and you can't stop piracy through legal takedown notices, then the only reasonable alternative is to find ways to take advantage of piracy. Today's pirates may be tomorrow's customers, after all.