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Originally Posted by charmian
I don't understand your reasoning. Why is it relevant in this situation that the user pays for the e-ink Kindle? Anyway, isn't it widely speculated that Amazon sells their e-ink readers for near-cost and makes their profits on the bookstore?
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It's not a free ride as opposed to what my pre-poster wrote:
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
On the eInk Kindles they would if ADEPT weren't a for profit venture for Adobe requiring its own licensing fees. But as long as Adobe competes against Amazon they aren't getting a free ride on Kindles.
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And my explanation was:
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Originally Posted by hansl
If Amazon would offer epub with Adobe DRM I could read it on my Sony. And Amazon for sure wouldn't worry about this user paid ride on a Sony.
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Here I used "user paid ride on a Sony" in order to emphasize that it is not a free ride for Adobe on the Sony and that there are companies which don't lock up their users and that epub books from any source could be displayed on the Sony as long as they are ADEPT protected or unprotected without asking Sony.
I know that ADEPT is the only DRM supported on my Sony but many bookstores and ebook reader devices support it. It is not locked away for Adobe use only.