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Originally Posted by rhadin
Unlike Amazon DRM that is readable only by Amazon products, the Adobe DRM is readable by most, if not all, devices that handle DRMed ePub.
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Amazon products like the iPad and any Windows, Mac, or Linux computer. Amazon products like Android tablets, Windows phones, and even rooted Nooks?
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Also, it has been my experience that every Adobe DRMed ebook I have bought has been downloaded to my computer and thus locally stored, even those I bought at B&N and Sony. Although with Sony 950 I can redownload from Sony's cloud service, I can also sideload the ebook from my PC. And my wife, who uses my Sony 505, which doesn't have wireless capabilities, can access the same books I can except that I need to sideload them.
One other thing. I don't know how easy it is to remove DRM from Amazon ebooks as I have never tried, but it is very easy to make an ebook with B&N's version of Adobe DRM compatible with what my Sonys can read as well as what a Kobo device can read.
Seems to me to be a big difference, even if not a perfect world.
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None of this has any relevance at all. If the guy's books were on his computer, or on his device, he wouldn't have any issues. The problem is that he (allegedly) kept all of his books on Amazon's cloud and can't access them since he is locked out of his account.
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Originally Posted by rhadin
What could possibly be so "very, very bad" regarding ebooks as to warrant denial of access to already purchased and paid for ebooks? My imaginaion simply cannot come up with such a scenario.
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Maybe the card used to open the account was reported stolen. Maybe the account was hacked. There are any number of possibilities.
And, again, he is not being denied access to books he has downloaded or books he has on his device. Only books he kept in the cloud and nowhere else.