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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
I hope I didn't misunderstand you -- are you implying you'd steal a copy of the book, remove the DRM, and then give it away after? Just because the author has signed an "exclusive" deal?
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Nope, never said that. I would either a) buy the book(s) and strip DRM so that I can format shift for my own purposes or b) decide that the irritation I feel now would spoil the enjoyment of the books for me, so I wouldn't buy it or do anything with it.
It irritates me because in the near future, it might be illegal for me to format shift it (in the USA it's already illegal), so I'll have no choice but to buy a device I don't want just for these books - and I feel it's morally wrong to try to manipulate me that way.
If they would sell books in an open-standard format, I would have no issue with this exclusive deal. I have no issue with exclusive deals for paper books because I can read them without having to buy some proprietary reading device. If Amazon would sell ePUBs I would buy books from them. Because they don't, I don't. If Kindle could render ePUBs I would have considered buying one. But it doesn't. And I won't lock my books to my device and I won't lock by purchases to one store because of the device I bought.
So I bought a device that can read books from the broadest variety of stores. Which rules out Amazon for my future purchases until they decide to support my device.