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Originally Posted by Kris777
Many new books available on Mobipocket format on fictionwise.com and mobipocket.com websites and many publishers will produce books in EPUB fromat in the future so it looks like both formats will be most popular in US and Europe the same as MP3 format for musik.
Why you like eReader format more?
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Its more my extreme dislike of the DRM thats built into mobi. Epub is an open standard (Though Adobe has built DRM into it), so I have less problems with that.
In any case, Mobi DRM ties your books to a particular device. So I have to register every device I want to read on. I object to that on several levels.
1. It limits my fair use of a work that I have paid for.
2. It means they can effectively track what devices I use for reading (and who knows what else).
3. If the DRM servers for Mobi ever get shutdown by Amazon (who decide that mobi enabled devices are too much competition for the Kindle... even though they own the Mobi format as well), it means that any books I have bought that have DRM cannot be transfered to new devices.
Ereader on the flip side uses a much friendlier DRM scheme. While it still limits my fair use somewhat, it is not nearly as draconian... I can read it on any device that has ereader software (unfortunately none of them is a dedicated reader). Its not tied to a DRM server so as long as I have access to the software and my decryption key I can freely switch devices.
Ultimately though, if DRM is abandoned, I have no particular interest in what ebook format triumphs.
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Bill