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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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.
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Ideally you should be able to read ebooks using a rendering engine that meets your preferences (setting and flexibility) and purchase ebooks from whatever store provides the best price and service. These are personal preferences and no one company can meet everyones preferences. With competition there should be new rendering engines and books stores and you should be able to easily switch to what you view as better. Without DRM and with a true open standard this would be possible. Adobe at least allowed for companies to develop separate rendering engines and tried to allow for you to be able to buy DRM ebooks from multiple vendors. It was a big play for them to collect $ on every ebooks old, every rendering engine and every store. Both suck but there is a distinction.