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Originally Posted by Quexos
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 ?
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No; what HarryT is saying is that many people are
too stupid / not experienced / not interested (circle applicable option)
enough to do anything else but buy a book and put it onto their reader using the manufacturer's instructions.
People just don't UNDERSTAND.
Most "normal" people buy an e-reader, and only THEN they'll find out what books will work and won't work, and they will do anything the manufacturer of the reader tells them to do, to get the books onto the reader.
If this does not work for any reason (ADE activation error, hit the limit of activated devices, whatever), these people are stuck most of the time, and will be sent from the store/reader manufacturer to Adobe, and back again, causing great frustration, and possibly never even resolving the problem.
People here, on MobileRead, they disregard all of that. They just install Calibre, and the Unnamed Tools. Then they buy whatever book they want, in whatever format, be it MOBI, AZW3 or EPUB. After downloading the book using ADE or the Kindle for PC app, they import the book into Calibre as one (1) extra step in the process and be done with DRM or format restrictions instantly.
These people NEVER have any problems. They never activate any device using ADE (apart from the computer it runs on), and because Calibre in combination with Alf's Unnamed Tools makes them completely independent from any store, any manufacturer, and any DRM-scheme, they can do whatever they want after the book arrives in Calibre.
Therefore, they can buy everything they want in EPUB (as I do, as many EPUB-sellers are actually cheaper for me than Amazon.com), in any store they want, and still use a Kindle without giving it a second thought, if they deem that to be the best reader at the moment.
At least, it works like that at this point in time, and in the foreseeable future.