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Originally Posted by manchuia
I have to disagree. The ebooks are the software. You buy Photoshop, World Of Warcraft, Final Cut, but you don't expect any of those to work on the system they were not designed for. The data is the output of your interaction with the software. In photoshop it's a .psd file, with reading it's your memory of the book.
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Not really debating the issue here ... but I've got real problems with your analogy. If Photoshop is the software and the *.psd file is the data, then what is your memory of the image??
For me the analogy would be Mobicreator is the software, the *.prc file is the data, and your memory of the book is something else entirely.
But, even given that a ebook is data, you can never be absolutely guaranteed to have data with formatting or images and metadata to be readable across all software platforms. Companies are always going to be producing proprietary formats as long as there is a profit to be made from doing so.
You will always be taking a gamble of some sort in purchasing operating systems, software, or even data such as ebooks. There is always the possibility of obsolesence. It just goes with the territory.
For now ... I'm fine with the DRM protected books that I have purchased from Amazon, and I love my Kindle. If for some reason support for the Kindle goes bye-bye and I am forced to use some other reader that doesn't see the DRM protected files ... then I'll worry about stripping the DRM off at that point. Right now, it's simply not a big issue for me.