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sirmaru · 01-01-2014, 10:23 AM

Since most eBooks on the planet are sold by Amazon, then Amazon IS THE standard.

Maybe Amazon should develop some conversion program to enable all other eBooks to be converted to their standard and then charge a nominal fee for it. If their conversion program strips copy protection, the fee could be shared with copyright holders.

They could have users of other formats email their eBooks to their Amazon accounts and do an automatic conversion. They already have that facility for MS Word files and do not charge for the conversion.

There is definitely something wrong with folks stripping copy protection on their own and not paying anything to the copyright holders. That used to happen with music until Amazon dropped the price on songs to near $ 1.00 each and made the labor of stripping copy protection too expensive.

Amazon could even license other eBook manufacturers like Kobo to use the Amazon eBook format for a fee added to the price of Kobos.

01-01-2014, 10:23 AM	#20
sirmaru Wizard Posts: 2,426 Karma: 6561538 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Kindle PW 2013, HDX 2013, Galaxy S5 2014	Since most eBooks on the planet are sold by Amazon, then Amazon IS THE standard. Maybe Amazon should develop some conversion program to enable all other eBooks to be converted to their standard and then charge a nominal fee for it. If their conversion program strips copy protection, the fee could be shared with copyright holders. They could have users of other formats email their eBooks to their Amazon accounts and do an automatic conversion. They already have that facility for MS Word files and do not charge for the conversion. There is definitely something wrong with folks stripping copy protection on their own and not paying anything to the copyright holders. That used to happen with music until Amazon dropped the price on songs to near $ 1.00 each and made the labor of stripping copy protection too expensive. Amazon could even license other eBook manufacturers like Kobo to use the Amazon eBook format for a fee added to the price of Kobos. Last edited by sirmaru; 01-01-2014 at 10:31 AM.