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> The problem here is not e-books, it's DRM. The article even says as much at the bottom.

So… how did the FSF point their fingers at the wrong culprit when they state black on white that the problem is DRMs but that ebooks are not intrinsically problematic?

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The title and major thrust of the article is that ebooks are generally bad. The real point only made at the end though is that they aren't, they're only bad when corporations and DRM are in-control.

Imho, if they had been clearer from the get-go that the problem is DRM, not ebooks in-general, it would be much more powerful.

> The title and major thrust of the article is that ebooks are generally bad.

Which is not wrong either given ebooks are generally from a DRM-using company (namely Amazon which has the vast majority of ebooks market share)

This is actually true only for the US market and possibly the UK one. In other countries it's vastly different. Of the hundred+ books I have on my reader only three or four are coming from Amazon.

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