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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.
He does this by first insisting on DRM and second by insisting on a proprietary format no other company uses.
This is why I refuse to buy Kindle Fire or any other tablets that use closed system in which one must buy apps from the device manufacturer in order to use them with the device. We are losing control with Kindle e-reader already and I don't want to buy another device where Amazon or Apple can pull the string on me.
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He Doesn't insist on DRM. I've bought a lot of ebooks from Amazon without DRM and not just public domain books.
I've also bought a lot of ebooks from other sites like Baen that work just fine on all my kindles.
I don't even need a Amazon device to read them. There are a lot of free apps for computers, phones and non-amazon tablets that I can read them with.
It's hard to see how he could get more open as long as the publishers insist on DRM before they will allow him to sell their books. The publishers are the only ones that prevent an open system. Well if all DRM was removed by the publishers device makers would still have to program the ability to read Mobi files on their devices as well as epub and txt, ect. Easy enough to do if they wanted. Or people could just use calibre to convert formats, also easy.