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Originally Posted by Hadrien
The issue is not with the devices, it's with the fact that big publishers WANT DRM on their books. Currently, it's not possible for a third party provider like Fictionwise to produce DRM files for the Kindle or the Sony. That's the main reason why you can't get books from big publishers on Fictionwise for these 2 devices.
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It is the case that FictionWise can't get Kindle secure AZW files to sell, but the Kindle is perfectly capable of reading secure MOBI files. Amazon has disabled this option, and this is entirely a marketing decision by Amazon. I base this claim on the fact that, so far as it is possible to tell without access to the source code, the "Kindle" e-book software appears to be
exactly the same as MobiPocket's Java Reader. My guess is that it would take a single line change to the Kindle's Java reader to allow the reading of secure MOBI files, with perhaps a few more lines of code to make the needed PID available to the Kindle's owner (the PID was available on early Kindles, but I think it is now obscured - easy to put back though).
So the Kindle is already in the position that the PRS-505 will be in once it has Adobe Digital Editions. It can already read a common DRM format. If only Amazon would allow us access to the full capability of the Kindle.