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Originally Posted by Kitabi
I know the whole argument about Kindle owners not being locked in. The fact of the matter is that the stores you are mentioning are niche stores.
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Opinion here. What could be a niche store for you, it could not be for me. So this is not a fact, it is your opinion.
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Originally Posted by Kitabi
Kindle owners cannot buy any book from any store and read it on their Kindles AS IS. The same is not true of EPUB as I have explained before.
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This is not correct. Sir, I am telling you, I have MOBI books, "as is", that I bought from others bookstores and I am able to read those on my Kindle! Please! Get the facts or check online. There are lot of bookstores where you can download books in mobi format for your Kindle.
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Originally Posted by Kitabi
Ahhh, the FUD campaign rears its head. B&N would, of course, go through painful readjustment as it closes its stores but its ebook business is healthy. There are, several ways out of this and bankruptcy is not quite the certainty you are making it out to be.
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Really? how ...
... the CEO and B&N directors, don' know how ...please take a look, taken from
http://www.investmentu.com/2010/Augu...-book-war.html:
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Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) – the largest bookstore chain in the United States – is in trouble. So much trouble that it’s decided to put itself up for sale.
The bookseller, whose stock recently dropped to a 10-year low, is hoping for a takeover bid as it tries to gain a foothold in the growing e-reader market...
...Founder and Chairman Leonard Riggio announced that he’s considering purchasing the company himself, with a view to taking it private
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Originally Posted by Kitabi
Finally, even if B&N goes bankrupt, customers would not lose access to their content as long as Adobe still builds in that DRM.
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B&N ePub has it's own DRM scheme, at least today. If the site is closed or something happen, still you can download your books locally but you will have to break the DRM protection to "release" your ePub file or book. So it gives you a false sense of freedom; not because is ePub, is universal and swappable between devices, the main issue is the DRM protection which of course, is implemented on Kindles too.
I think we agree in something and is that DRM protection is affecting the end user. But book's availability or being tied up to a device is strictly dependent of the books you like and read, more a user's preference than something related to the book's format itself. I actually don't read ePub books from public libraries or Google, I don't need those and the format is horrible, with missing TOC. Like me, there are similar users and that does not limit us at all.