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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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Great way of putting it. I personally hate having to be tech-savvy to read a book. I am not being sarcastic. I do love the "like it-download it-read it" aspect of the Kindle.
I couldn't do that with the Sony Reader because I am Mac and they had software that had to be installed. The entire time I have owned my Sony Reader, I haven't been able to buy one single book from them. So I get to say what a lot of non-US people say about Amazon's Kindle: "I guess Sony didn't want my money."
The Kindle has allowed me to buy several books and most of the time I wasn't even near my computer. Of course, I should be reading all the drm-free mobileread downloads I have installed first, but that's another story!
