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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I'd say that if you want to protest by boycotting exclusives at Amazon, it's even more important to also boycott any DRMed ebooks too.
There are plenty of DRM-free ebooks out there. Classics, Romances, Sci-Fi, and no doubt other genre novels, including the modern literary genre.
Arguing that sometimes there's no choice but to buy the DRMed product doesn't work, if you're also arguing that one should not buy a particular exclusive offering.
Either one's desire for a particular book overrides one's objections to the format/availability, or it doesn't.
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If I boycotted DRMed eBooks, I'd have to give up the nice free eBooks I get from the library and for other DRMed eBooks, I'd have to go back to pBooks.
For exclusive eBooks at Amazon, I know there are plenty of other eBooks I can read instead. So I'm not upset at missing them. I'm just finding it really sad that others (yourself included) don't care that Amazon is helping to ruin eBooks. Obsolete format and exclusivity. This is not good at all. Please cancel your subscription. Let the publishers know that exclusive with Amazon is bad. Tell them to stop it even if it means they might go under. We need to get things under control and then we can work on DRM going away. We need to get rid of exclusive eBooks and the agency model before we tackle DRM. We have to pick and choose our battles. And exclusive is bad for business. We cannot let Amazon get away with it. We also have to get Apple and the agency publishers to lose the law suit. That is one jury I would love to be on.