Thread: Is the Kindle right for me... @.@
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Old 01-19-2011, 09:35 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The word "proprietary" simply means "somebody's property". That's all it means. ADE is absolutely unquestionably a proprietary DRM technology. It is owned by Adobe.



Anybody who chooses to pay Adobe large sums of money can support ADE, certainly. Just as anybody can choose to have their books sold by Amazon. It's a free market. ADE is no more and no less proprietary than Amazon's DRM system. Both are owned by companies who are in business to make money. There's nothing wrong with that.



I certainly didn't interpret his post as saying that.
Well when he makes statements like "All US online bookstores your their own DRM", there is pretty only one way to view that.

Can anyone buy the support to sell Kindle books? That's the difference. Anyone can choose to support ADOBE, but not every can choose to support Kindle. IOW's ADE is open for sale to the Public, AZW is not. there's a big difference.
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