Thread: Could the Kindle spark book piracy?
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Old 12-06-2007, 01:11 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by secretsubscribe View Post
$0.10 per Whispernet file transfer aside, if (big if) we see the Kindle become the ereader of choice among the general population we might see a lot of sharing between friends, maybe even a few dark-Whispernet vendors selling their latest scanned book to whoever drop a few bucks in their paypal account.
But it seems a lot easier to format ebooks for kindle and share them back the old fashioned way.
Popularity of any ebook device might spark more piracy. Now sure Whispernet itself will spur that on.
The only way the Kindle could be the eReader of choice is if eReader is ported over to it and installed in a future firmware upgrade. The Kindle does not presently support eReader books. No eink device supports eReader (with DRM) format ebooks. eReader is a format developed for PDAs and cell phones. It has not really come out of that mode. So please do not confuse the Kindle with eReader.
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