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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
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You can buy copyrighted books for Kindles at lots of places.
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Suppose someone finds a nice 50% off coupon at Kobo and buys Lord of the Rings to read on her Kindle--you know what will happen. We've seen many people do just that with any number of popular titles. They are universally disappointed and usually very angry,
often at eBooks in general for doing this, especially when they learn they cannot get a refund for the price of the useless ePub book.
I think we should try not to confuse people with suggestions you can trust to buying eBooks for their book reader just anywhere. That only works for those who know where and what to buy. If there was one DRM for all eBooks--and it wouldn't be hard for the publishers to bring that about--then this whole issue would be more easily addressed. But that's not reality. I really think it's important on a forum like MR to warn people what the rule is before we suggest exceptions to the rule.