I buy books from Amazon and Smashwords. I don't buy from stores that use Adobe DRM because I run Linux, and so don't have ADE. One of the reasons I bought a Kindle is that I don't need to run a Windows program in order to buy books.
If a book is available at both Amazon and Smashwords, then I'll buy from Smashwords. I did buy some from Amazon, in order to get the whispersync functionality, but now that Calibre adds the relevant metadata to the file, I can get that functionality with books bought from Smashwords. I buy from Smashwords over Amazon because I like what they do and I want to support them.
I'd be happy to buy from a small ebookstore, as long as they didn't use Adobe DRM.
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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
And just out of interest - why would someone using a kindle want/need to strip the DRM - if it was at all possible that is...................  |
Off the top of my head:
- I may not always have a Kindle. If I replace it with an ePub reader, I want to be able to convert all my mobi files to ePub
- I might want to use something other than the official Kindle app to read my books on my PC, phone, tablet, etc
- I may want to use the Kindle's text-to-speech function on a book that doesn't have it enabled
Those are the reasons that immediately came to mind.