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Originally Posted by Tulkas
I'm looking forward to the day when a decent eBook convertor which strips out DRM is available ~ similar to what's happened with music files.
I have no problem paying for eBooks, don't want to pirate anything but do want to be able to read books purchased on any device and in any format ~ all this propriety crap is just stunting the growth of the eBook market.
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You may not want to pirate anything, but there's plenty of evidence that a lot of people do (look at the eBook usenet newsgroups for a start). If such a converter, able to strip out DRM, were to come along, the most likely outcome would be that many publishers would withdraw from the eBook business. Many publishers - and authors - will not release eBooks without DRM.
Note that pretty much all eBook formats are proprietory. Being proprietory does not (necessarily) equate to using DRM.