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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Actually, the problem is that you didn't do your research prior to buying the book and/or Kindle. Kobo sells ebooks for any ereader that supports ePub. Kindle is the odd reader out because they want to lock in customers with a proprietary DRM scheme. Not doing your research seems like a very poor excuse for piracy.
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I love judgmental people, especially if they base their judgment on facts known to a rather small part of the general population.
For a large part of the population, ebook and ereader formats and compatibility is a mess. Adding different DRM flavors to the mix has definitely not helped transparency. I am lazy, want instant gratification and don't intend to make a detailed study of which format is supported by which device and which DRM can schemes are compatible. As long as publishers/shops are not willing to understand the fact that they should enable easy format conversion and get rid of DRM I perfectly understand those people going to places where ebooks are made available in a convertable, non-DRMed format.
Especially considering those downloads are not illegal in many jurisdictions (including where I live), publishers and re-sellers will have to get their act together if they want to remain competitive.