Xendula,
thanks for the congrats.
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Originally Posted by xendula
I would not necessarily say that Amazon "boycott" ePub
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Well, maybe "unwilling to support" sounds more friendly.
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Originally Posted by xendula
I am not sure what that monopoly policy is about
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That's about the DRM binding the Kindle to a single bookstore. And together with the "unwillingness to support" epub you cannot legally transfer DRMed epubs to a Kindle and read them. Adobe of course also limits your choices since not each ebook reader supports their DRM, but my reader does and there are many more than one bookstores which support it.
On the unDRMed side im aware the you could convert if necessary. But that's something I want to avoid. BTW I downloaded my first DRMless epub from mobileread to my T3S directly. Just without any intermediate step.
So, you might say, customers may choose between Amazon and other bookstores, they only need to select the right hardware. Where is the monopoly? Good point, but I didn't claim that the monopoly is implemented
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So, you are probably right. Try to imagine what Adobe would have done if they had had a giant online store as backing.
Cheers,
Hansl