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Not to their device, but to their bookstore.
Why are they giving away Kindle-for-whatever programs for just about every platform? Because people buy their books. Amazon is giving the razor away for free and selling the blades.
Rogue, I don't disagree that DRM is, or at least can be, highly annoying. But there is a big difference between "damn, this is annoying" and wanting to destroy an entire industry over personal annoyance. As an example, I'm highly annoyed by ice cream companies putting less and less ice cream in their boxes and selling them for the same price -- I'd like to shout at the people who made that decision. But I have no interest in destroying the dairy industry. The contention being brought forth by my opponent is that the people opposing DRM want to destroy the publishing industry, either through malice or through stupidity. The basic point of my post was to disagree with that, and explain how wrong it was.
Sure, a world without DRM will be somewhat more convenient (it won't fix the ice cream boxes, though). But it wouldn't be as much more convenient as a world without ebooks would be inconvenient (I grew up in that world). Ebook readers, especially the early-adopting and utterly voracious ebook readers who populate MobileRead, want more ebooks, and want more ebook buyers, not fewer. It's in our own best interest.
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