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+-   Book Publishers Abandoning DRM on Monday March 10 2008, @12:06PM tmalone

Submitted by tmalone on Monday March 10 2008, @12:06PM
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tmalone writes "The New York Times is reporting that book publishers are beginning to phase out DRM protected audio books. This month the world's largest publisher, Random House, started offering DRM-free mp3s; Penguin has announced that it will follow suit. It seems that *gasp* DRM doesn't work:

"Publishers, like the music labels and movie studios, stuck to D.R.M. out of fear that pirated copies would diminish revenue. Random House tested the justification for this fear when it introduced the D.R.M.-less concept with eMusic last fall. It encoded those audio books with a digital watermark and monitored online file sharing networks, only to find that pirated copies of its audio books had been made from physical CDs or D.R.M.-encoded digital downloads whose anticopying protections were overridden."
Maybe now I'll be able to put audio books from my library's website on my iPod, or listen to them on my Mac or my Linux box."
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