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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
The majority will go for the familiar. But what if someone with a kindle decide that he don't like it, and want a sony. Or someone with a sony decides he wants a kindle after all. Readers changes, taste changes, needs changes. What was the best choice one moment might not be the best choice later.
It's a question a fair choice. Right now I use a bookeen reader. When I get the next I expect to be able able to chose any brand I wish.
People need to be able to come and go as they wish, or there is no competition. And no competition = BIG problem. Your choices shouldn't be binding.
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Oh, I largely agree, and I'm anti-DRM. But I don't see the number of people being bitten by being unable to switch readers and take their library with them as being a huge number. Most folks will stick with the brand they have.
And the reader vendors certainly aren't going to care. While they might not impose DRM to
prevent switching, I don't think they'll cry tears if it makes switching to a competitor difficult. Amazon is the closest to imposing DRM to prevent switching, but it's not because they want to tie you to the Kindle - it's because they want to tie you to Amazon as the ebook vendor. I don't see it as likely to occur, but I suspect Amazon would not reject out of hand a proposal from a manufacturer to sell a Kindle competitor that could get and read content from Amazon, as long as Amazon was the only vendor it could do that with.
Amazon wants to the your only source of ebooks.
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Dennis