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Originally Posted by Julius Caesar
Of course Bezos insisted on DRM. He doesn't want anybody to buy ebooks from his site and use them with another device not made by his company. And he doesn't want anybody to buy ebooks from another company and use them with device made by his company. He wants a closed system in which he can control everything.
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I've bought plenty of DRM-free books from Amazon (usually small publishers or indies who understand that DRM is a bit pointless), and for those which aren't, there's always "Alf magic" anyway.
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Originally Posted by avantman42
He may not want people buying books elsewhere to read on a Kindle, but the fact that Kindle apps are available for many platforms suggests that he doesn't care what device you use.
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Quite probably something to do with them making very little money on the Kindles themselves and far more from content sales
