Publishers Lunch
Following similar moves from Holtzbrinck, Bonnier Germany,
dtv, Hoffman & Campe, Luebbe and others, Random House Germany has joined
the trend and announced it will drop hard DRM in favor of digital watermarking
(or "soft DRM") as of October 1. In the
announcement, ceo Frank Sambeth explained: "Abandoning harsh DRM
facilitates readers and distributors dealing with e-book files, increases
customer satisfaction and reduces complexity. At the same time traders and
platforms can be supplied, which offer no hard DRM. With the conversion to soft
DRM we join also an ever-widening industry consensus."
Germany is the first major ebook market to drop DRM on a broad basis. The country's publishers and booksellers association (the Börsenverein) put ebooks at 4.3 percent of sales marketwide for 2014.
Germany is the first major ebook market to drop DRM on a broad basis. The country's publishers and booksellers association (the Börsenverein) put ebooks at 4.3 percent of sales marketwide for 2014.
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