I&#x27;m definitely not a fan of DRM, but mentioned it since some people are concerned about it.<p>I think, from the little I have read about this (with regard to the issues we&#x27;ve discussed here), academics in general is kind of screwed up given the power structures in place.<p>This might sound like a broad generalization, and perhaps counter-intuitive, but I think for academic institutions to optimize themselves, they need to be thinking about how to re-arrange the incentive structure to align with incentives that drive a professor to write books and not with incentive structure of the markets.  For example I think within the realm of academics it makes total sense to move toward a &quot;pay for the person, not the product&quot; model.<p>With electronic distribution of the media, you get almost zero-cost of production and distribution (except of course for the time the author spends writing the book).  This theoretically allows the industry to figure out how to cut the middle men and move those savings to the &quot;talent&quot; instead of finding more ways to bureaucratize the system further, eating away at the salaries of those who are producing the material in the first place.  However, given the power structure my hunch is without an &quot;(r)evolution&quot; within those industries professors will continue to get a fraction of what they deserve.