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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Given the thread you quoted from, I'd have to say that maybe the OP is right in some way. Amazon is trying to stop books from getting into the hands of people who are not Amazon eBook customers. Amazon does not care about creativity. They want the locks and the keys and they don't want anyone else to have them. Exclusivity is why I am glad I do not have a Kindle. I don't want anyone to take books and lock them up so only some people have access. Books are to be accessible by anyone who wants to read.
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That seems kind of silly. Why blame Amazon? It is publishers who insist on protecting their rights and the rights of authors. If you buy a paper book, you can't share it with 5,000 people. It is easy to do this with a non-DRMed ebook, completely undermining the livelihoods of both writer and publisher. Yes, of course it would be better if Amazon offered multiple formats. But it is incredibly naive to imagine anyone whose business it is to write, publish or sell books would give them out for free (which is exactly what happens with non-DRMed books).
That said, my whole library is deDRMed, but only so that I can read my books on any ereader, not so that I can share them on the internet. I like writers, and I want to support them.