A recent discussion about DRM with Richard Stallman, Danny O’Brien and Harry Halpin

(Re: Audible) DRM is a defect

Follow up to a reply I got for recommending Audible in my last Letter.

When I mentioned Audible in The Letter:

I started “reading” The Martian, by Andy Weir, during one of my latest trips…

DRM is easy to remove provided you are the person who bought the e-book. It simply limits the reader who doesn’t know how to remove it — the majority. For those people, try searching Google for ‘remove DRM’.

A new author on Amazon usually checks that DRM box when they publish their first book at Amazon. They are scared of…

The Long, Slow Death of Open

NOT DEAD BUT DYING a slow death, I alighted among the naked branches of Cambridge. Late winter, a tease of snow, the phenomenon of soft, golden light as the day drifts along The Charles to the Atlantic, spilling chilly, saltless tears from and into an ocean who knows too much.