Thread: Are Fair Use Rights coming to an end?
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Old 07-18-2011, 04:06 PM   #53
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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda View Post
I suspect that when the dust settles, Amazon, B&N, and the other major players will have established a standard format for purchases and file transfers, and it will be possible to swap DRM-protected files across various devices that have been registered to the same person.
Amazon is the only one that doesn't use a standard format. I doubt that will be an accident, and I doubt they will want to change it. Having their own format means anyone who wants to read Kindle exclusive ebooks has to buy a Kindle, and anyone with a Kindle has to buy their ebooks from Amazon. If they changed their ebooks to epub it would cost them a lot of money in lost sales of both hardware and software.
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