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Originally Posted by daffy4u
Lemurion,
Thanks a lot for your input. Some of your examples made the issue clearer to me, especially the forced repurchase of music in various formats.
I'm not a big re-reader so DRM on eBooks doesn't affect me very much (I won't re-listen to most of the 100's of audiobooks I've purchased either). However, I too have music in various formats.
I'm reading through some Wikipedia articles on DRM now and may come back with more questions or comments.
Thanks again.
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I'm no longer a big re-reader either, but it's not just re-readers who lose in that situation. In the last month I've bought 25 books from Fictionwise and 5 more from Books On Board, and I don't think those numbers are in any way unusual. So far I've read about six of them. Now of those thirty or so books, I would say no more than ten or twelve are multi-format; which leaves something close to twenty books that are in secure formats.
Currently I primarily read on my Palm, but I'm planning to get a Sony Reader as soon as I can scrape up the spare cash. Whenever I buy one I can guarantee you that I will have secure format ebooks in my 'to-read' pile, that will not be compatible with the Sony.
There you go: vendor lock-in in action; and not just for people who reread.