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Old 02-20-2013, 10:22 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
...and Amazon isn't stopping stores from doing this. Publishers can make their books DRM free at any time and this would be possible. Just like I can buy books from Baen and others and put them on a Kindle without going through Amazon.
Yeah, it seems that the publisher's would be found more liable than Amazon in this case. The Kindle quite freely allows 3rd party content, it's just the publishers who don't want to distribute it in a compatible format.

EDIT: Interesting thought... would cracking the DRM scheme in order to create compatible ebooks that are DRM protected using the same scheme and tied to a particular device fall afoul of the DMCA, or would that be considered OK under the compatibility clauses?
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