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Originally Posted by harryE123
Harry, may I ask something? Am I right in assuming drm or no drm there's no cross platform compatibility between amazon's mobi-type format and the sonys, and vise versa with adobes epub? And how does apple figure out there with their drm-ed epub?
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If a book isn't DRM-restricted, you can use calibre to convert it between whatever formats you have and need. For example, if you've picked up one of the fine public-domain books here on MobileRead, and it's only available in epub but you have a Kindle, just convert it to mobi and you're good to go.
On the other hand, if a book is DRM-restricted, you're stuck with whatever format it came in, unless of course you choose to jailbreak it, which grievously offends the publishers and device sellers who want to ensure their device lock-in and wouldn't know a clue if it flew up and bit them in the face. Which is why I buy from Baen, BVC, O'Reilly, Smashwords, etc.