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Originally Posted by JSWolf
This isn't about the Kindle vs the rest of the world. This is a DRM issue. I can easily see people getting bitten by DRM because they like the K3 and want one and have/had one that used ADE. Or the other way round. I was using Sony and Kindle as an example of non-interoperable DRM and what could happen if a switch was made.
An even better example could be Apple and iBooks. If you have an iPhone and use iBooks and have bought some eBooks via iBooks and then decided you wanted a reader and got one because it also supported ePub, you'd find out the ePub from Apple is not compatible thanks to the DRM. So really, all this format lock in is mostly due to DRM.
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Here - this is the big thing.
Right now you can buy ePubs with three different DRM wrappers and no one device can read them all.
Doesn't it sound stupid that you have to buy the same book multiple times in the same format to read it on all your portable devices - even when all the the DRM schemes theoretically allow you to read it on multiple devices - but practically don't because the DRM says:
"Yes, you can read it on more than one device: but not that one."