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Originally Posted by JSWolf
We know people want DRM removed. We know people want to be able to buy eBooks from any store selling them. The only way for this to happen is for Amazon to abandon Mobipocket and move to ePub. We have too many other readers using ADE to get them to go Mobipocket. Besides, it's Mobipocket format that's the more obsolete format. So if we had ePub across the board, then we could work on getting DRM removed. Amazon is the hold-out in the format
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The "They" of which you speak, Publishers, are going to cling to DRM as long as humanely possible, and having only one book format, one DRM to push onto books isn't going to make them throw up the white flag. If anything, having only one book format to sell books with might even make them dig in their heels, extend this stupid war.
Yes, a lot of other ereaders are use ADE and Epub, but it is wholly unfair of you to lay the blame at Amazon's doorstep. There are different versions of Epub out there, with different flavors of DRM on top, so it certainly isn't as if the entire world has joined hands under DRM-less epub and Amazon is just the one being contrary.
And to be honest, I don't see how touch screens will improve my reading experience. Ok yes, I can tap on a word to get the definition as opposed to scrolling up the screen with a directional pad, but short of that.. what else is a touch screen good for?
Tapping the screen to turn the page is exactly the same as pressing a button, and a finger swipe, depending on the size of the e-reader and the weight, isn't as simple as pressing a button.
My K3 has a keyboard and it is only slightly bigger than the New Simple Touch Nook, so what on Earth are people complaining about when the keyboard is a waste of space? They have the same screen size, nearly the same weight- certainly not enough of a difference between the two to seriously consider the difference in weight, But there, a touch screen for data input, and what does that do so much better than a physical keyboard that it would make my reading experience so much better?