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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
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.
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The problem is going to rear it's ugly head if anyone gets a different reader that's not from Amazon. Like Someone with a K1 say wants one of the new Sony Readers, gets it and gets totally screwed up trying to figure out how to get the eBook on the new device. Or if you had a Sony 505 and it broke and to replace it, you went with a Kindle and cannot get your eBooks on the Kindle. DRM will bite people and bite them good. At least with devices that use Adobe's Adept, you can interchange the devices and the eBooks will still work.