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Originally Posted by Alisa
I agree. I say this as a happy Kindle-owner. I hope that Amazon can move the ebook industry towards DRM-free as they've helped to do with music, but as long as it has DRM on it, I don't consider myself as "buying" books. It's more a long-term lease. The combination of the price-point and the fact that I rarely read a book more than once makes this still work out in my favor compared to what I spent before.
I must admit, however, that I still feel conflicted about supporting the enterprise at all. While I do believe that Amazon ultimately wants to take things DRM-free and may help ebooks, I am also concerned that the industry will take the message from this that DRM is a good marketing model. Hopefully However, if we don't buy ebooks, they make take the message that ebooks aren't a good business, not that we don't want them infested with DRM.
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Amazon right now is out to help Amazon. What Amazon does or does not do with DRM will not affect the rest of us. Just look as the exclusive deals Amazon makes. That's good for Amazon, but not for the rest of us or eBooks in general. So in order for Amazon going DRM free to work, they'd have to open their eBooks up to everyone Kindle owner or not. But I doubt they would. It would not be good for Kindle sales.