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Originally Posted by nowthenmobile
"-X-" You make some good points. I suppose that I am not really seeing a big long term picture. Your point about Adobe DRM is well made but I don't understand enough about Adobe's role in this and what motivates them. I guess I am just venting frustration that with ebooks it seems that you are not really allowed to own your books. It seems that competition is often lacking an element of cooperation that would allow the interests of the customer to be served. It is like being asked to pay £100 for a radio that will only receive radio signals from the BBC, and then having to buy other radios for other stations. They have managed to sort that out. If everything was as disconnected as eReaders there would be so much waste.
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What you mean like Sirius radio and XM Radio
Actually it's worse than that. It's like being asked to pay for a $100 radio, and then being charged full price to listen to the song, sure you can listen to it when you want, but they have to right to remove the song from your account.
Here is my advice to you. Find the bookstore that best suits you, based on selection and not format. Then look for a device that suits you. Looks and features. Find out if the DRM has a liberation solution.
Then plunge in and buy the eReader.
At the moment there is not clear solution but there is good enough. Don't worry about the format Kovid had made shifting between format trivial. And the benefits of eBooks far outweigh any con.
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Originally Posted by nowthenmobile
OK - Something I am struggling to understand - What is the point of Overdrive? I can search for a book and then find out which libraries have it. What's the point of that if I can only join my local library? Am I using it wrongly? It seems that Overdrive actually sell these ePUBs and their website services to the local libraries. Why don't Overdrive just lend them directly to the public and charge book rental?
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Yes this frustrates me too. Personally I think it's the publishers that are to blame and do not allow overdrive to enter this kind of business.
Can you imagine if they turned into a Netflix for eBooks. I would subscribe in a heart beat.
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