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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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.
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Originally Posted by FacebookVirus
A question worthy of its own thread, but I'm sure it's been asked and answered here many times. My guess is it's because they're currently the leader.
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There are many reasons 1) They are the industry leader and because of their size they are seen as a monopoly 2) People don't like Amazon and it is easier to blame their dislike on the walled garden. 3) Some folks are not interested in removing DRM for whatever reasons (legal, lack of interest, why should they have to) Two common reasons people do not like Amazon 1) their labor practices 2)their tax payments.
I really think it comes down to claiming the walled garden has less potential of causing a political rift in a thread. But that is 100% my reading between the lines and I am probably wrong for some folks.
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Originally Posted by theinfamousj
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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Industry standard by whose standard? More companies use EPUB, that is true. I bet the percent of ebooks in Amazons modified Mobi is the same if not larger then the number of ebooks using EPUB.