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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
You can accidentally throw an out-of-print pbook in the toilet, rip it, lose it. Don't assume that your current ebooks are beeing able to be used on future devices in 2, 5, 10 years. It is very nice today that you can buy a ebook and have multiple copies of it on different devices. You should be thankful for it - they just as well could make you rebuy all your books (and not just Amazon) if you get a new device.
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?? I do not only *expect* to be able to use such a book 50 years from now (be it converted or in it's own format), I *demand* it, just as I can use a paper book 50 years from now if I take good care of it. That is why I strip all the DRM, and archive the original version, the de-DRM-ed version, and the two most common formats, azw / mobi and epub, at this time. If another common format arises, a conversion tool will come along, and I will add that format too.
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I am sorry, but you contradict yourself there. Compatible after DRM-removal which in itself is a conversion whether you like it or not makes them non-interoperatable before. Legally you cannot strip the DRM in every part of the world anyway. What I described also works for 100% legal stuff, not even including grey-areas (removing of DRM is a grey area).
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After stripping DRM, the files should be just a clean format, and therefore they are operable. I don't care if it is legally allowed or not. Who is going to check? Do you think some policeman will barge into my home, checking to see what books I have bought, and then seeing if the DRM is still intact? Come on.
Nobody cares what I do with the file; Read it, delete it, put it on a floppy and eat it, or remove DRM; it doesn't matter to anyone, as long as I don't go about distributing the file.
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Again, variety does not make epub bigger, it even hurts as there is more things that all need to stay compatible with each other. As you state Amazon is big enough to maintain [the mobi format]. Epub is split up, and it does not look like it is going to get any better.
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Amaon is big enough *now*. Who says they will be big enough in the future, to maintain the status quo? And even if there are several different versions of EPUB, I expect that they will be quite interoperable and convertible. If one of them disappears and you have files in that specific EPUB format, I think you stand a better chance converting them to something else as opposed to having an Amazon-only file.
And don't say Amazon will never disappear; even bigger and more important companies than Amaon have gone broke.