This comment is probably going to be unpopular with this audience, but there is a really good argument to be made for DRM in the e-book space.<p>When selling a physical book there is a real barrier to propagation of the entire work in the form of a prohibitive cost or effort for the average person to produce unauthorized copies.<p>In an era where even little kids know how to do a copy and paste this is definitely not the case with e-books.  An author who releases his&#x2F;her e-book without DRM would be, for all practical purposes giving it away to the vast majority of the reading audience.<p>Maybe the future of both books and music are that recorded and written works will be freely given as promotion for other more lucrative efforts (like concerts, seminars, and so forth) but as long as the publishing industry and authors rely on the sales of books&#x2F;e-books for the majority of their income, DRM is here to stay.