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Originally Posted by Katsunami
This makes every non-Amazon book more expensive than it needs to be.
Not having read the article, I do find Adobe to be torture. They are ^%&$%@$% EVERYWHERE. Sometimes, they seem to own about every standard in the world from DNG for pictures to PDF for printable documents, to EPUB for books, not to mention that there are no professional alternatives for programs such as Photoshop.
There is no use trying to develop one, because the market has invested itself too deeply into Adobe products. Have you ever seen Corel Graphics Suite (the only viable professional alternative, IMHO) used somewhere, for example? I haven't; not in The Netherlands.
Adobe is to standards what Google is to the internet: it's practically almost impossible not to get involved with them some way or another.
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Yes hard to not use adobe if you do anything with PDF, not impossible, and not altogether unreasonable as they pretty much developed PDF AFAIK.
I am not too concerned about the 22 cents they charge for DRM either. One part of me says hey maybe I can save 22 cents elsewhere and the other part of me says 'Get a grip'. In my current menial job I make 50+ cents a minute and I could get a better job in less than the time it would take me to save 22 cents on say 10 books. Fortunately or unfortunately I like my current job so I don't bother.
Helen