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ProfCrash · 06-23-2011, 02:03 PM

Yup

And once again, it is not just Amazon. BN, Sony, Kobo all have book stores and all have people doing the same thing. Many folks are using free books, personal docs, purchased drm free books, and purchased drm books stripped of drms. The only way anyone of the larger e-readers whoown their own bookstore cracks down on drm stripped material is if they all do. If Amazon cracks down, I can not turn on my Whispernet, move my books from my Kindle to my desktop, and strip the DRM. Then I buy a different e-reader.

Amazon knows this. Barnes and Noble knows this. Sony knows this.

I would guess that the reality is most people buy books from the same retailer that they bought their e-reader from. Most folks don't know who Apprentice Alf is or that Calibre exists. We know about it here because we discuss it.

I posted at Kindle Boards for a year before posting here and never saw a discussion that included Apprentice Alf. Discussing stripping DRM in anything but the vaguest terms over there is a no no.

So most folks know little to nothing about stripping DRM. Amazon is not going to create a PR blitz by screwing with what I would guess is less than 10% of their users.

06-23-2011, 02:03 PM	#8
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	Yup And once again, it is not just Amazon. BN, Sony, Kobo all have book stores and all have people doing the same thing. Many folks are using free books, personal docs, purchased drm free books, and purchased drm books stripped of drms. The only way anyone of the larger e-readers whoown their own bookstore cracks down on drm stripped material is if they all do. If Amazon cracks down, I can not turn on my Whispernet, move my books from my Kindle to my desktop, and strip the DRM. Then I buy a different e-reader. Amazon knows this. Barnes and Noble knows this. Sony knows this. I would guess that the reality is most people buy books from the same retailer that they bought their e-reader from. Most folks don't know who Apprentice Alf is or that Calibre exists. We know about it here because we discuss it. I posted at Kindle Boards for a year before posting here and never saw a discussion that included Apprentice Alf. Discussing stripping DRM in anything but the vaguest terms over there is a no no. So most folks know little to nothing about stripping DRM. Amazon is not going to create a PR blitz by screwing with what I would guess is less than 10% of their users.