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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Think of it this way, the Kindle is marketed to the average person. Not just the tech savvy who know better. Now the average person isn't going to care about the Kindle's DRM as long as the book in question can be downloaded and read on the Kindle with no hassle. I know this is a hassle for those of us who want to be able to format shift or know that the ebook we purchase today can someday be read on some other device sometime in the future when the Kindle is just a distant memory.
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If you went to the average person and said:
You have 2 choices.
1) Pay, up front, for $400, an eBook reader, then pay $10 per eBook.
Your eBook reader can fail at any time and may render your purchased eBooks unreadable. You cannot buy used books nor can you borrow books from your friends. Oh, and Amazon is keeping track of what books you read when you use their service.
2) Continue with the current process - where books might cost more, but they might cost less. But you get to buy used books and borrow books from your friends. And no one keeps track of what books you read.
Guess which one they will pick.