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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
The exclusivity and the DRM go together.
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Yes and no. If an ebook is exclusive with Kindle, even if they didn't have DRM on the Kindle ebooks, they don't let you buy a Kindle ebook unless you own a Kindle. I expect they do that to get around the fact that they are selling eBooks cheaper than mobipocket.com sells them and there is some type of agreement that Mobipocket will not discount books so that mobi resellers have a value add.
Of course, Kindles exclusives are only for a short time so I'm not sure what everyone is all up in arms about it. I've seen "Blockbuster" exclusive DVD rentals and also exclusive stuff. Of course, anyone can go to Blockbuster so I guess it is a bit different.
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