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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I would have to disagree on the difficulty of file format conversion. And that leaves us with a typical user that will have non-DRM books that can be converted, and DRM books that can't be converted without taking extra steps (and the small issue of the legality of it).
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It seems to me that the "Typical User" buys ebooks from a single source like Amazon or B&N, based on which EBR he or she has purchased. This TU reads the book once, or rereads it, on that EBR. The TU does not own more than one EBR, is unaware of calibre, and would not find it either easy or worth the time to format shift. He or she would not know how to retrieve the ebook file and email it to someone else, nor would the TU care to go to the trouble of doing it.
It is only the "sophisticated user" who can or will or wishes to do these things.
I'll bet that the ratio between TUs and SUs is 100-1.