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Old 12-12-2007, 10:22 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by mrkai View Post
When sony's book store gos belly up like their music store, what then?

If your reader breaks and you buy another, you can't read the books you bought on the new one if they aren't there to authorize them.

If you don't have an intent of spreading your purchases across the internet, you think its ok to be treated as if you in fact had this intention?

Its like going into a store and having someone follow you thru the store, walking behind you because you *might* pocket something.

Most DRM'd products have very nasty riders on them that allow the sellers to retroactively change the terms on which you may enjoy your purchase, ex post facto.

In fact Apple has done this more than once with purchases from the iTMS.

But I guess if its cool with you...
Amazon has screwed over ebook readers in the past. Amazon used to sell ebooks, but they decided to stop and when they did that, they remove all the ebook purchases from the account. So if anyone needed to redownload any f Amazon's ebook purchases, they could not and that is unfair.

Now, if Sony was to someday stop the Connect shop, purchases can be made in MS Reader format, DRM stripped and the content easily converted.

And all that stuff you said about DRM books applies to the Kindle as well. It's not just Sony and the Sony DRM, but the Kindle and the Kindle DRM as well.

The benefit of the Sony Reader over the Kindle is a BIG one. Because you HAVE to download your books via the computer, you HAVE them locally. I have a case that you cannot refute where this is aVERY GOOD thing.

The book The Color of Magic was available as an ebook for a very short time. Someone on this forum did purchase it for his 500. It was pulled no long after by the publisher. This user has the ebook on his hard drive. So it can be backed up and reloaded on to that 500 or read on that computer. Now, if this user had a Kindle and downloaded this ebook directly onto the Kindle and read it and then deleted it or didn't read it and deleted it to make room for something else, that user would not be able to get the ebook back as the publisher pulled it. But because Sony makes you download to your computer, you get an automatic copy that is not on the DER (digital ebook reader).
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