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Originally Posted by stonetools
I did try to research it. Unfortunately, Amazon's change provoked so little reaction that I was unable to figure out what they did, exactly.
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Amazon have also been very quiet about it. I added two links to the wikipedia article the last time this was discussed, so you could have used that to start your search.
A contemporaneous thread on Mobileread about Amazon abandoning the PDF/Microsoft LIT ebooks they used to sell:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...?threadid=7223
Another contemporaneous source for the information:
http://www.writers-edge.info/2006/09...ops-ebooks.htm
Yes, this was back in 3Q 2006. Ebooks were certainly very small then, and there wasn't much outcry.
But it did happen, and similar things have happened elsewhere in the ebook and digital music industry.
To claim, repeatedly, as you have done that it didn't is at best wilful ignorance.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
kind of like what happened when Apple went from OSX 9 to OSX 10, with no backward compatibility.
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You do like showing your ignorance, don't you? Mac OS X 10.0 was introduced in 2001. Support for classic appications continued for over six years until the introduction of Mac OS 10.5, giving plenty of time for applications to be updated to work with the new operating system.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
They would probably care, though, if their favorite best selling authors stopped writing novels because they could make more money doing something where their IP rights were protected.
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You
cannot be serious.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
Unfortunately, the digerati hand wave away the concerns of bestselling authors and publishers and demand unconditional surrender of their IP rights. Not surprisingly, the authors aren't interested.
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Strawman.
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DRM isn't copyright, but it is a way of defending copyright.
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No, it is not. It is a security blanket that the publishing industry needs to outgrow.