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Even without DRM, multiple formats are a pain to deal with. If I buy from Amazon, my book is in a different format than if I had bought from Barnes and Noble. I can't just copy a book from my Nook to my Kindle. I have to convert it. One thing I've been rolling around in my head since I first read this post is that it would be nice to have a victorious format where I can buy from whoever and get something that I can use on any eReader I may happen to purchase. Sure there are people out there willing to throw their eReader next to their HD-DVD player, their MiniDisc player, and their old Betamax deck if the eReader's format becomes obsolete, but a lot of people are going to sit on the fence until they know the book they buy today will still be easily readable 5-10 years down the road.
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