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Originally Posted by tompe
Isn't the important point that the Amzon book shop is locked to one DRM. So in a way you are supporting this when you buy a Kindle. And a DRM that only allow a reader of a specific type.
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Actually all readers in existence except PDA's only support one DRM system. So Amazon is no different from others in that respect. Sony, for example, is exactly the same and the DRM was changed so their own early product of a few years ago uses a different DRM than the last 2 products.
This may be because of licensing contract issues for some of them but certainly not for Amazon and probably not for Sony.
A few are only licensed to MobiPocket but there is a difference in that several products can use that license. I suspect in the long run Amazon will use a MobiPocket license as well but for now they are controlling the license to limit their loss leader books.
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