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It is a non-issue if you are tech savy or read boards like this one. Had I not come here I would not have had a clue that I could buy books from other stores and convert them.
I wold imagine that a large percentage of the e-reader population does not know about Apprentice Alf's website or Calibre and honestly believes that they are locked into Amazon or BN or Kobo.
I know the Nook can read EPub book from other stores and I am sure that their literature mentions that but I doubt that it is something that BN spends a ton of time walking people through in their manual or at their stores. They want people buying from BN not Kobo.
The people on this board do not compromise a representative sample of the population. Being here and reading these boards means that you have developed enough information to make an informed choice regarding DRM and conversion.
Kindle Boards posts a warning if two or more people mention that DRM can be removed in a topic even if no one types the words Apprentice Alf. I don't think I have ever seen a discussion of DRM stripping at Amazons boards.
This site is an anomaly so I would not trust the poll results here.
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