[cyberax]

> looking at the archive (https://archive.ph/zPBbZ), almost all of the publishers do not publish popular authors.

Brandon Sanderson publishes his novels without DRM. All the TOR books are un-DRM-ed as well.

> without drm that stuff will spread like wildfire, but drm can easily be broken by those who know what they're doing - but I guess for publishers, luckily the vast majority of the popular wouldn't bother to break it.

Books are so small, that even simply clicking through them and OCR-ing the screenshots is a feasible method. DRM isn't even going to buy a day or two of exclusivity. But it will annoy users.

I've been using Amazon Kindle books exactly because it was so easy to de-DRM the books and read them on my devices. Now that they're removing it, I'll switch to other providers.