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Originally Posted by da_jane
RWood - I live in the romance genre world and they keep books. Lots of them. And re-read them. The cover article for the PW for December is about romances and the first quote is from a bookseller of romances that says her readers keep their books.
I have hundreds of ebooks and I don't want to be tied to one device. Bezos knows that is what consumers want for music and I argue that it is no different from booklovers.
Plus, I bought Adobe books from Amazon years ago and that content was deleted when it decided to no longer support the digital movement. If the Kindle fails, will users suffer the same loss?
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The best way to support a failed device in that case would be to allow users to download the content via their computer to store it locally. Then update the firmware to support Mobipocket DRM. Then even if it doesn't work, you can still use it as a an ebook reader to read current content and be able to keep the content you've already paid for.