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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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You totally missed the point. Go back and read what I said. The point is not about DRM being there to stop eBook sharing. The point is that Amazon is trying to get exclusive access to eBooks. This means that if Amazon has their way, a lot of eBooks would not be available to people who do not read Amazon eBooks.
Now do you see the point?