This is just silly. What a strange world we live in.
The ability to change an ebook from one form or another is no different than
buying a CD, and then recording it to cassette tape so you can play what you have spent money on in a different format. Are they going to make that illegal too?
I know they talk about it, but as long as you are not distributing it to others, I don't think anyone has ever gotten in trouble for that.
Do they do it to FORCE you to pick their reader over another? That's senseless as well.
Don't these companies realize that you will likely spend more money on ebooks over time than you will on the reader itself...I would think that B & N would would specifically NOT use DRM, and encourage Kindle readers to spend money on their books and convert them just so they COULD read them on a Kindle...this is money they are losing, no?
This it like them saying: "No, I will NOT sell you 500 bucks worth of ebooks because you won't spend 250 on my reader!"
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