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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Okay, you seem to keep saying the point of this thread is not that you want the actual Kindle to support ePub, like these discussions usually go, but for Amazon to sell a format compatible with other readers so you can use your preferred reader and also buy from your favourite retailer, have I got that right?
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Right. I do strongly support and desire open formats, but that's a secondary concern in this discussion.
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
If you scroll down to the Product Details, you'll notice it says "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited", which is Amazon's not-so-secret code phrase for "this book is DRM-free". Books which don't list SDU or have a set number will be DRMed instead.
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Are you sure?
As an experiment, I installed Kindles4PC under Wine. It works just fine, as others have said. Then I 'bought'
Common Sense by Thomas Paine. Since the price $0.00, I figured surely it won't be DRM corrupted. But
it is. Good grief!
It's public domain, available uncorrupted at the
Gutenberg Project, and Amazon isn't even charging anything for it, so why oh why do they "protect" it with DRM? Bizarre thinking, that.
But looking back on the Common Sense page, I see that it also says
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
It's not like I'm sitting here holding my breath waiting for Amazon to blink.
After I bought my Sony Reader, I started looking around and (oh my, my!)
there's a
HUGE inventory of EPUBs available that interest me on numerous websites for no cost, plus of course gobs of new releases for sale at
Diesel,
SmashWords,
Borders,
Sony Store and others. Some new books are even sold with no DRM.