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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Does anyone here remember how Amazon screwed lots and lots of people when they decided to stop selling eBooks and people could no longer download them when they needed to update the DRM on the legally purchased eBooks?... Since Amazon has a piss-poor track record with eBooks, why are people falling for Amazon and eBooks yet again?
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It's simple: Amazon made it simple. Using the Kindle is so butt-stoopid simple that customers don't think about the DRM... they don't have to, just to use the Kindle and the Kindle store. And remember, most Kindle users hadn't messed with ebooks before the Kindle... so, NO, they didn't remember anything about that. (Why didn't you tell them?)
The commercial world is chock-full of examples of businesses convincing consumers to do things, including things that are
incredibly bad ideas... like max'ing out credit cards and ruining their credit... by the simple expedient of making it butt-stoopid simple for them to do. And we all know Amazon isn't alone in this regard.