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Originally Posted by Solicitous
But Library books are DRM'd. Given that I have yet to see an ereader support ADE and another form of DRM...
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nook supports ADE DRM and Barnes & Noble DRM.
The real reason Kindle doesn't (and won't) support ePUB is because Amazon doesn't sell the Kindle to make money on Kindle sales; they sell it to increase book sales. And they don't sell ePUB format books.
If one day they move to ePUB format books, then it will support ePUB (and probably an Amazon-proprietary ePUB DRM). Until then, there is no reason for them to support ePUB, and a reason not to: perceived lost sales.
The funny thing is, if it did support ePUB, I would have considered it, and probably would have bought more Amazon books. Right now, I avoid Amazon like the plague, because my reader (nook) doesn't support Amazon format. I only buy from Amazon if I can't find it anywhere else and I can confirm (by downloading a sample) that the book can have DRM stripped and format converted to ePUB easily.