Thread: Ebook stores and their DRM
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Old 04-03-2011, 05:19 AM   #29
crich70
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I wrote Mobipocket.com with a query about this issue myself just this morning. I know they are owned by Amazon so I can't figure out why they don't allow their books to work on Kindle.
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Amazon bought Mobipocket in 2005 (so I understand) and so they have the ability to do so. It would certainly be a gesture of good will if such was done. After all why should a person have to buy the same book twice just to be able to read it on 2 different ereading devices that use the same program(Mobipocket) and are owned by the same parent company? That's like going to a two hr movie, watching the 1st hr and then having the lights come up and then being told that to see the 2nd half of the picture you have to buy another ticket. It's just not right. DRM is put into place to prevent theft from the ebook seller, that I can understand. But why should the customer have money taken out of their pocket by the same company twice so that they can read a book that they've already bought on their new device (Kindle) that is owned by the same company that produced the book in the 1st place? Point in case. I bought "The Fiction Writer's Toolkit" from Mobipocket some yrs ago. Now Amazon has "THE NOVEL WRITER'S TOOLKIT: A Guide To Writing Great Fiction and Getting It Published" by the same author, but of course I can't read my Mobipocket copy on the Kindle due to the DRM and by the same token I haven't bought the "Kindle version" so I can't read the book on my Kindle. Of course since I have already paid for it once I don't see why I should have to do so again either. Could someone explain to me how it is theft if someone breaks DRM on a mobipocket ebook so they can read it on the Kindle, but it isn't theft to have it locked so it can't be read on Kindle so that you have to buy the same book again from the same company just in order to read what you have already purchased? I just can't figure that out.
It will be interesting to see what (if any) response I get to my question. I really can't see why I should have to pay the same company twice for the same book just so I can read it on my Kindle.
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