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Originally Posted by French
So let's say I put it aside and say, "I resign myself to forever only buying books from Amazon (or free books from Amazon)". Does anyone ever worry about 3 or 4 or 5 years from now, if all the money they've spent on a "proprietary" format will just be wasted money because they will no longer be able to access those books?
Has anyone ever desperately wanted to read a book and they couldn't find it on Amazon? What did you do?
And I am truly disgusted with how sloppy the ebook industry is as a whole. Maybe I'm alone in this...but I would rather see ONE ebook format with only ONE DRM scheme, but I would gladly pay a LOT more money for the reader itself. I would be more than happy to let the company make money off the cost of the reader, and then all the books end up on a fair game field. And as for pricing on ebooks...they should be at the very least the same as paper back, but really less than paperback, and honestly that's a fair price to me. Everyone should still be making money off that price point.
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I do have faith that Amazon will keep something up: if they, in the end, abandon Kindle, they'll have some kind of backup plan like permitting re-download into other formats, simply because it would be bad press to make so many customers (and their attorneys) discontent. (And more than discontent, at that point).
You can still buy from shops other than Amazon, because the Kindle reads DRMd .mobis and has a PID. For everything else, well, the routes you can take aren't always the ones that might me ok in your State (buying and de-drming, for example, then changing the format- the legality of the act is one's main concern in this problem, I suppose).
I'm not so sure I'd like the scenario of "one DRM system". Not per se, but because it would mean monopoly, and monopoly is not good-
then things get sloppy, because, for one thing, you couldn't avoid passing through that "agency" (Adobe, for example). Also, I suspect that we've still to discover a lot of things or features we might want to have in our ebooks- visualization of this and that, and so on (for example, I'd love to have a different way to show footnotes)- which is why there's still not
one format; there's of course the main reason- protection of different readers' market- that is economic more than customer-oriented.