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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
That is not how I read his posts.
DRM is bad and all DRM is propritary. I don't care how many bookstores choose to use the same propritary DRM, it is still owned by someone who can change the rules.
And BN, for all the talk about how wonderful and open it is, choose its own DRM. And choose to use a format different then the dominant format in the US at that time and still dominant in the US market a year later.
Why does that matter? Because it shows that the silly DRM, format crap is all about business and making money. BN choose to not use Mobi because it feared Amazon. BN choose not to use the same DRM as the other EPub stores because it wanted to create its own market. BN acted like a business should.
So lets stop complaining about Amazons business decisions. Or if we are going to compalin about Amazons decisions, lets take a good hard look at BN and Kobo as well.
Even better, why not just realize that the various bookstores sell enough books to keep people happy and stop trying to make a big deal out of the format differences. We all know it doesn't matter. Anyone who makes their way to this site will very quickly figure out how to strip DRM and buy their books from where ever they want without any real problems.
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I'm not complaining about Amazon's business decision, they are doing what they feel is working. Good for them
my whole basis is the claims a certain poster makes in order to confuse people.
DRM may be DRM but when that DRM (in this case ADOBE) is supported by the entire industry, then the whole DRM thing becomes almost passe.
I'm not doing a whole Amazon is bad because of no ePub, I'm just trying to correct some horrible misleading posts as to how other online bookstore use their formats.