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I agree wholeheartedly with you tsgreer.
I'm hoping the Kindle does for ebook readers what the iPod has done for mp3 players. Sure they try and get people to use DRM but if this is the short-term price for a bigger ebook market I'm all for it. Ultimately nothing can withstand the liberation of information. Eventually some clever hackers will crack the Amazon DRM (if they haven't already) and the entirety of the Amazon library will end up on the internet DRM-free. But even if they don't, Amazon has injected new customers into the market that might never have consider ebooks were it not for the Kindle. New customers == higher profits for the ebook industry == greater investment in ebook technology == more choice for all of us.
Bring on the success of the Kindle! And Amazon: make it available in Australia already!
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