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Originally Posted by Synamon
Since there is a Kindle app for most anything, I don't even know what point you think you are making here. Earlier you mentioned apps to read different epub DRMs on rooted eReaders/android devices, add a Kindle app to those same devices and you can read Amazon DRMed books.
If someone is tech savvy enough to root or hack an eReader, they are tech savvy enough to remove DRM, which renders your whole argument ridiculous. If they aren't that tech savvy, then they are locked into their eReader the same way someone is locked into a Kindle.
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*sigh* I'm not saying you can't load a Kindle app on an Android device. Obviously, I know that.
I am responding to a very specific line of argument that ePUB is dead/dying because you can only read B&N ePUB on B&N devices, Kobo ePUB on Kobo devices. I am trying to point out that:
1. Some devices can run both B&N DRM and Adobe DRM.
2. No device can run Amazon DRM except Amazon devices.
3. All (rooted) Android devices can load Amazon DRM, B&N DRM, Kobo DRM, etc. through the use of all those places'
store app.
4. All (rooted) Android devices can load B&N DRM and Kobo DRM through third party apps, but no third party app exists which can run Amazon DRM.
So in the case of an argument that B&N or Kobo is restrictive with their format, Amazon is logically even
more restrictive. Do you disagree?