Perhaps best read after the blog post from current O'Reilly media president Laura Baldwin, which makes two important points:
1) Book sales have been consistently declining overall, in all media. It's not clear that DRM has much to do with this.
2) They'll still be selling DRM-free through at least one merchant, Google Play. (It's not clear whether this policy extends to Amazon as well, but they wouldn't be the first publisher selling DRM-free there; Tor's science fiction novels have been DRM-free through all merchants for a few years now.)
1) Book sales have been consistently declining overall, in all media. It's not clear that DRM has much to do with this.
2) They'll still be selling DRM-free through at least one merchant, Google Play. (It's not clear whether this policy extends to Amazon as well, but they wouldn't be the first publisher selling DRM-free there; Tor's science fiction novels have been DRM-free through all merchants for a few years now.)
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