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Originally Posted by Quexos
They would have NON DRM epub support (In other words you could only read open NON DRM or DRM Stripped epubs in this hypothetical Kindle reader) so guys like me just take my NON DRM'd collection to my new epub compatible PW, thus entering inside Amazon's environment. From there, my next purchase would logically be at Amazon's since they are cheaper. What's more, if I were still tempted to buy an epub elsewhere I would not, because my new PW would not read DRM epubs. From there, why bother buying more expensive epubs elsewhere and then have to bother stripping the DRM when I can with my new PW buy Amazon's cheaper books without DRM issues ? (It would be a win/win for Amazon as well as me the customer)
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Nice idea, but I don't think it'll ever happen. The overwhelming majority of commercially-sold ePub books have Adobe DRM, and the typical punter doesn't know how to - or want to know how to - strip DRM (you say yourself that you're not comfortable with Calibre, and you're way more experienced with ebooks than the typical user is). If Amazon were to advertise the Kindle as working with "DRM-free ePub", the average book buyer would expect to be able to use a book they've bought from Kobo on an Kindle, and would be annoyed when they found that they couldn't. Amazon don't want to get into the dubious area of telling people how to remove DRM - it would be a public relations nightmare.