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Old 12-20-2010, 04:21 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
They aren't. Amazon's digital publishing platform is specifically NON-exclusive.
Is it non-exclusive for DRM ebooks?

If I understand correctly, a Kindle can't be used to read a DRM-corrupted ebook sold by any other store. That is, if you buy a Kindle, you have given Amazon a monopoly on supplying you with DRM-corrupted ebooks (unless you also buy a non-Kindle ereader too--an expense and a bother).

I'm merely suggesting that their advance understanding of the implication of the sale of ebooks, and it's potentially liberating effect is what has motivated them to not sell ebooks that can be read on any other ereader than the one they sell and control, and to not enable the Kindle to read DRM-corrupted ebooks sold anywhere else.

This of course ignores non-corrupted ebooks, but it would be difficult to exert control over them and there's less money there. Also it might be possible to spin it as magnanimous to allow reading them on their ereaders from any source.
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