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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Yes, and most, of not all, devices have an app with an RMSDK licence, hence, can read adept protected books.
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Yes, and most, if not all, devices have an app for reading Kindle books, hence, can read Amazon protected books.
I really don't get the distinction many try to make. You are no more (or less) "locked in" by Amazon's DRM on their ebooks than you are by Adobe's DRM on ePubs. Both can be read on almost all of the devices out there. Both require a licensed app to do so. Same-same. Evil Amazon or evil Adobe.
I concede the point that the underlying format of Amazon ebooks is proprietary where ePub is an open standard, but that point is fairly pointless UNTIL you get to DRM-free. And if you're to DRM-free... then you're already past any "lock in" whatsoever.
Besides; open standards are great, but when almost all of the major ePub players have added their own proprietary "features" to an ePub spec from which they've already chosen to cherry-pick what they want (and to ignore what they don't want) ... well, then "open standard" gets a little meaningless, too.