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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I am not entirely sure that the only reason they use DRM is to protect copyright. They also have an interest in preventing customers from reselling the product.
Certainly I think that Amazon's insistence on using a propriatary DRM scheme is to achieve customer lock in. Most people will never remove the DRM. So when it comes time to replace their Kindle, they will have to get another Kindle if they want to continue to read their books which means they will continue to buy books from Amazon.
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Bill
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and that's the truth in a nutshell.
There is absolutley no reason for them to NOT have epub, none. Except to lock you in. And yes yes we all know the tech savy people here know how to "Beat the System" but the majority of consumer's either do not or do not want to go through the process. Go ahead and aske your co workers if they know about Calibre and if they would rather just buy a book and just sync it up to your e-reader or shoot it to another program and have it convert it and THEN side loade it. I'm not talking about the average poster here, I'm talking about the Average consumer which makes up about 70 % or if not more of these devices.
Grrrr, it's like the early and mid times of the iPod and iTunes all over again. Egads Amazon even the King of Walled Gardens, Apple, has epub on it's iPad.
There are too many just as good if not better ereaders out there to warrant any reason to buy a Kindle, I'm sorry it's just the truth, when you have to flirt with doing something illeagal and ethically wrong, that's a red flag. Waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many better ereaders out there to deal with the hassel.