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Originally Posted by EricDP
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.
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I buy books from DRM ePub sources but (often) read them on my Kindle because I do not care for the standard ePub formatting I encounter. I rejig them so the text is full justified, no para line space, and with a nice para indent. Is this really illegal in the US? Then it's a lousy law which simply cannot be enforced. Trafficing of copyright material -- different story. But that's not what either of us is advocating.
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Originally Posted by EricDP
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.
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To each his own -- I have no issue with that.
I don't understand it either. Amazon's Kindle format means Kindle customers never have to worry about ePub or PDF ... the AZW works as is. It's confusing as heck to go to some of the independent stores that carry MS Reader, Mobi with a special ID DRM, ePub, PDF and apparently B&N has its own flavour.
Maybe, someday, Kindles will play DRM ePub as well as AZW, but AZW as default. Would that satisfy you? Even if they continued to sell only AZW format?
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Just try to find a pirated copy and format shift. Don't give any money to him.
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This is nonsense: if a content owner decides to sell where you can, but choose not to, purchase, and your response is to steal it, or encourage its theft, shame on you.