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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.
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Understood. And my query was exactly how likely such a switch would be. I don't see it as affecting more than a small fraction of the market.
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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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I won't argue that. I don't want DRM, and format lock in is just one reason. But my wishes aren't reality, and won't be any time soon.
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Dennis