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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Sorry for jumping in late on this. With respect, I would disagree that Adobe's DRM "is no less restricted" than Amazon's format. With Kindle books, you have to read them on Kindle readers or use Kindle software on your computer, phone or tablet. In contrast, the vast majority of other dedicated ereaders support Adobe's DRM, and Alkido (and perhaps some other software solutions) will support books using ADE regardless of where they are bought.
Both DRM's are restrictive, and in practice, most Kindle users will never notice their restrictions, but there are some real extra restrictions with the Kindle.
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Bill
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I don't know about Alkido, but you can't, for example, read an e-book bought at B&N on a Sony or Kobo reader. Which means that if you have a Kindle, you don't have access to the almost as large B&N store; if you have a Nook, you don't have access to the slightly larger Kindle store; and if you have a Sony, you don't have access to either of the larger stores - but you can access the much smaller sony store.
Now it is true that you may have access to other epub stores - but compared to B&N and Kindle, those stores are very small, even adding them together. And of course most independent stores offer books in mobi form anyway.
However, I should probably correct my original post to say that you are slightly more restricted with Amazon's drm than with epub. (Although I'm not at all sure that you have access to fewer books).