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Originally Posted by Donnageddon

Not me, boswd, I keep em unDRMd, and in my Dropbox library via Calibre.

I reread my ebooks often.

100% agreement. And I am eternally grateful to the poster here (although I do not remember his name) who first got me to look at Dropbox. It has been a lifesaver for me SO many times, when I need files in a particular location. And I am currently using 3 different computers so the ability to sync between them (plus my phone and a few files on my Wife's computer) is an amazing feature.

For those who are unaware, Dropbox also gives more space for referrals to those who are students or associated with an educational account. www.dropbox.com/edu to activate it.

Originally Posted by mlewis78

If you buy ebooks at B&N, then you are locked into the Nook. You can't read those book on other epub ereaders.

Not quite. Adobe's reader official protocols now includes both BN and Adept decoding.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

But with a nook, you don't have to buy from B&N. You can buy from BooksOnBoard, Kobo, Sony, Diesel, etc. and not ever buy from B&N for DRMed eBooks. But with Amazon, you ARE locked into Amazon for DRMed eBooks.

You can get mobi formats from some places which can work on the Kindle. And pdf files work on most of the Kindles.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I know lots on MR say you don't have to buy from Amazon. But if you don't strip DRM/convert, then you have to buy from Amazon if DRM is involved.

The majority of people don't know the difference anyway. BN, Amazon and some of the others (although less prominent) are set up to make it easy to buy and download from the parent company. Most people don't even think of looking elsewhere. And with the Agency model, there is little advantage to doing so anyway.

The biggest negative to the Kindle IMHO, is the inability to borrow from the library without removing DRM. For those who have difficulty with technology, this is a big problem, otherwise it is a minor glitch.

Originally Posted by OtterBooks

Interesting idea, and would definitely a big gamble on their part.

I noticed that many ebooks on Amazon list the publisher as the seller. Some do, some don't. But if you bought it from the publisher, it seems like they should honor that license across platforms. I guess they could claim that you only bought a license for the Kindle format version, but I hear that the original file from the publisher is epub, and Amazon converts.

A proof of purchase verification system would need to be set up, naturally. But that should just be a matter of your name and contact info matching the Amazon sale. Of course there could be problems here that I'm not considering.

That's an interesting thought. Isn't the whole point of the Agency Model that the distributer is just an agent for the Publisher? In that case, the Publisher should be required to honor a different format of the same book, provided that you can provide proof that you purchased it, and that you deleted it from your Kindle Library...