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Now that Amazon is using Topaz so much, I have just marked them off my list as a place
to buy ebooks. So their decision to use a hard to break DRM means lost sales for them
and more sales for B&N. It is not like the authors and publishers gain anything by the
harder DRM only at Amazon, the same books are being sold at other outlets with easy to
break DRM.
My JBL, thanks to a current Adobe Reader Mobile implementation, can handle the B&N
DRM, but two minutes after downloading a purchase, I have dropped the .epub into
Calibre, where a third party plugin removes the DRM and Calibre converts the .epub to
an .epub with formatting to match my ereader. A few minutes more and I've updated
the SD card by running SyncToy to have the SD card match a folder on my hard drive.
Within 4 or 5 minutes of purchasing the 7th Elemental Masters "Unnatural Issue" I have
a DRM free and formatted for my JBL ebook in the correct folder of the SD card, ready
to go.
There is no reason to let yourself be "Locked-in" to any particular ebook vender,
especially Amazon.
Luck;
Ken
Last edited by Ken Maltby; 06-08-2011 at 05:19 AM.
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