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Originally Posted by HPG
Thanks for the helpful advice, but I guess that's why so many of us feel like giving up from time to time. This format confusion is just baffling for those of us who aren't immersed in the technology. I take Pilotbob's point, that DRM can be stripped out, although I'm not at all sure about the legality of that in Canada, and, again, it's an example of the kind of complication that gets in the way of what needs to be a transparent technology for it to gain widespread acceptance. If that's not too tangled a sentence.
This all reminds me so much of the early days of personal computing, when the decision about which machine to buy was tied up with what software was written for it, so it was very much a game mainly for enthusiasts and gamesters. Then along came the technically awful IBM PC, powered by the even more ghastly MS-DOS, and because it was IBM everyone bought it, creating this vast market for software. Authors found ways of living with the ludicrous limitations that MS-DOS imposed, the market grew, and the rest, as they say...
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Well, technology changes. Before the latest Sony firmware release it was true that all eBook Readers only supported one DRM format. When change happens the word takes a while to disperse.
Today it is still the case that many decisions about hardware are made based on what software or what format eBooks are supported. Many folks use a PC specifically to run certain programs even today and the same is true of eBook devices.
Dale