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Originally Posted by Amalthia
I know with every exclusive deal amazon lands, the less interested I am in buying any books from amazon. if it gets too out of control at a certain point the pirates are going to become more motivated to crack the Kindle format. Right now with people able to buy most ebooks from stores online there is less incentive for people to crack the Kindle format, but at a certain point I'm afraid they'll go too far.
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Kindle AZW is just a slightly modified Mobipocket format and MobiDeDRM.py will remove the DRM and at that point, it will be a standard Mobipocket eBook with no DRM. It's the AZW1/TPZ (Topaz) format that's not yet crackable. Amazon however does not allow anyone without a Kindle to purchase eBook from there. That's why there is no desktop viewer for Kindle eBooks so nobody but a Kindle owner would have need for them. Basically, Amazon is tying you to the Kindle and when they get exclusive content, it's a sort of blackmail saying if you want this, you have to buy the Kindle. Even Sony allows you to read their content under Windows with eBook Library so even if you don't have a Reader, you can still read if you want.
I would dearly love to ask Mrs. Obama and Mrs. McCain about this and see what it is they have to say when it's explained what this exclusivity is doing. How they answer and what they do, would say a lot about them.