So you're saying the average Joe would rather continue paying MORE for restrictive DRM'd ebooks than move on to Amazon's cheaper books and superior environment even to the cost of finishing reading the last DRM books they still got on their Kobo or Sony or whatever reader they have then move to Amazon for their future purchases ?
Oh my, people are stupider on average than I assumed and I guess Adobe is right to screw them over. They sort of deserve it if they don't know (or want) any better. As for guys like me who would have happily moved to Amazon with my current collection and from there ACTUALLY start purchasing ebooks there, I guess I'll just stay where I am.
What a world
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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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