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Originally Posted by montalex
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.
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What John was speaking about are the exclusivity deals made by amazon.
Mobi, even without drm, mobi are still mobi, and still can't be read on my e-reader.
Yeah, you can convert, but it works badly. I went looking at an epub, and though it was badly made, before seeing the "calibre", hinting at a converted book. "Oh, that why".
Don't get me wrong, calibre was a life savior on that one, but i will not convert unless forced onto it.