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Old 11-06-2013, 09:54 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
I want to know why everyone thinks for some reason Amazon is a worse offender in the locked-in category. Any eReader is locked in just as much, and sharing Adobe DRM between different ecosystems is no easier than using the plugin-that-must-not-be-named to remove the DRM altogether.

If you are worried about Amazon or Barnes & Noble or whoever removing your books remotely, then back up the ebook files on your computer. Then you will always have them no matter what.
I don't know what the consensus answer is going to be, but if I had to guess:

ePub is the open source and industry standard. Amazon requires converting away from that.

DRM exists in certain stores, but not all. I buy from non-DRM stores.
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