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Originally Posted by Catlady
They're locking in customers, but they're also locking out customers. Now that I've bought a non-Kindle, they don't want my business anymore.
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But that's not really true. Amazon has lots of ways for you to read their books on other devices - just not on other EBRs.
Personally, I don't use my iPad as an EBR, but for a while I did, & the Kindle App is what I used in preference to my dedicated EBRs or any other iPad app. A lot of that had to do with being able to also read it on my iPhone, of course, but some of it was the ease of using Amazon to buy ebooks.
I'm not entirely sure that the ebook retailers/publishers are trying to lock out readers. Nor am I sure that they are trying to make their proprietary EBRs necessary to reading their ebooks, although I wouldn't rule that motive out.
What I think is that they really really believe that DRM is good, and accomplishes its purpose of preventing piracy & copying. Any other reason is secondary.