None of the DRM-related revelations in the article should be overly shocking to the HN crowd. For me, the most interesting nugget of info was that e-books now account for a quarter of O'Reilly's revenue. (top of the second page)
Of course, but this is printed in Forbes. The more that the non-tech crowed sees that publishers can succeed without customer-screwing DRM, the better chance other publishers will follow suit.
I know, I guess I was just pointing out that this was hardly news for hackers, and potentially saving others the time of reading all of it, looking for the newsworthy bits.
