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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
As long as the authors/publishers are offering their books in other formats at other outlets, you shouldn't be "locked-in". Not by the outlet that you select, anyway. You can just choose another.
If you mean that the device you chose to be your reading device can only work with a certain outlet's DRM scam, then you might have chosen the wrong device. Or if you are so enamored of your Kindle or Sony or Apple device, you will have to live with the restrictions that choice entails.
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I like the mobile phone system of locked devices. You get the option to buy a phone that isn't bound to a network, or pay less and get a locked one.
I know it isn't exactly the same, but people don't seem to realize that the reason why Amazon can afford to lower the price on the kindle is because most kindles sold bring revenue from the book sales. I say most and not all because, of course, there are those who will just get the free books.