Thread: People who want no DRM are impractical dreamers...
View Single Post
Old 03-23-2011, 11:44 AM   #401
Piper_
~~~~~
Piper_ ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Piper_ ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Piper_ ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Piper_ ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Piper_ ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Piper_ ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Piper_ ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Piper_ ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Piper_ ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Piper_ ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Piper_ ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Piper_'s Avatar
 
Posts: 761
Karma: 1278391
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: USA
Device: Kindle 3, Sony 350
Quote:
Originally Posted by EowynCarter View Post
Even drm free, my reader can't read mobi. Yeah conversion.... But it sometimes works badly. And I'm not going to bother with amazon when there are so many shops offering books my reader can read.
Format shifting is more a problem than taking off DRM imho..
I know it can be, for some highly-formatted books. Still, at this point, there are few enough that suffer from the conversion to make it worth switching, I think.

I too prefer epub, but I can understand their position: they chose to use mobi before epubs were a choice, and by now, dumping mobi or even offering both would be a pain in terms of backwards compatibility or CS.

At this point, I'd consider it to be a bigger PITA than just skipping DRM and letting people convert.

The point is, they don't use DRM to lock us in to their device. If that was their goal, they wouldn't be handing out K4x aps and they wouldn't be happy to skip drm if the author or publisher allowed it.
Piper_ is offline   Reply With Quote