Thread: Implications of ebooks to the Long Tail
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Old 12-20-2010, 04:39 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by KenJackson View Post
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).
This is only partially true: Kindle can't read non-Amazon DRM, but it does read plenty of non-DRM'ed files, so there is no lock-in to Amazon. FYI, this is not a Kindle issue, it is a DRM issue. For example, Sony's hardware doesn't let me read Amazon DRM either.


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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.
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