{"id":40425,"date":"2009-11-12T03:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091111\/0220146895.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-12T03:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T08:33:00","slug":"romance-publishing-giant-offering-ebooks-without-drm-reporter-upset-by-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40425","title":{"rendered":"Romance Publishing Giant Offering Ebooks Without DRM; Reporter Upset By This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.HappilyDomesticated.com\/\">Kevin Cummings<\/a> writes in with the news that romance novel publishing giant Harlequin is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-12973-Long-Island-Books-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Harlequin-announces-new-digital-only-Carina-Press\" >setting up a new ebook division<\/a> to offer digital books directly from the company&#8217;s own websites, as well as via various online retailers.  That, by itself, isn&#8217;t a huge surprise these days, but the article does note that the publisher decided to go without DRM on the books.  Now, that seems like a smart, consumer-friendly move that should be applauded.  However, the reporter who covered the announcement claims this move is &#8220;troubling,&#8221; which seems like an odd statement.  How could treating customers with respect be &#8220;troubling&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091111\/0220146895.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091111\/0220146895.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091111\/0220146895&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=276efe3f9943fbec5eef886acef5e255&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=276efe3f9943fbec5eef886acef5e255&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=Q6lXQ2NmrZs:ZeGL8Xya-zY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=Q6lXQ2NmrZs:ZeGL8Xya-zY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=Q6lXQ2NmrZs:ZeGL8Xya-zY:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/Q6lXQ2NmrZs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Cummings writes in with the news that romance novel publishing giant Harlequin is setting up a new ebook division to offer digital books directly from the company&#8217;s own websites, as well as via various online retailers. That, by itself, isn&#8217;t a huge surprise these days, but the article does note that the publisher decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}