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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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I'm not so sure about that point of view given how the music download market is heading. I just wish the DRM they used was something like your name so if it's found floating around they can single out the sharers not those who want to use mutliple platforms/devices.
On the subject of the Kindle I doubt that Amazon would dump Mobipocket. It's highly unlikely that Kindle is going to storm the market like an iPod ~ it's damn ugly for a start, you're locked into one supplier and it's a US only product (at least for now).