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Originally Posted by eschwartz
The vaast majority of the books I read, at least, are available as Kindle books. Any US library that owns those books will have access to both the ADE and the Kindle checkout options.
If you would like to check out the http://hadc.lib.overdrive.com and http://overdrive.slcl.com for example, they both have large selections.
Regarding the removal of DRM, I have no idea how many people do it. But the people who know enough to whine about the "EPUB standard" will also know enough to be able to strip DRM. The rest are most likely just buying from the builtin store of whatever reader they have and don't concern themselves with weird things like formats and files and other arcane stuff.
Or perhaps I am just being too cynical?  It is possible... |
I don't think cynical has much to do with it. I actually think the percentage of whiners is very small.
Most people buy or borrow the book as is, read it and on with the next. On finding they can't lend or give it away, a few might be dismayed and go back to paper, most just say oh well and continue on.
A few go to the trouble of finding out how to remove DRM, I did myself and it took less than an hour 4 years ago, not because I cared overly it was just to see if it could be done.
I see a lot of people in the course of a day and have discussed ebooks with 5 or six people a week for 6 months a year those same four years. Most of them US citizens That is a lot of people. Not one mentioned DRM or even format. Only one mentioned piracy, and that was in an oblique way. he said his son sent him a lot of books but they were all public domain and he only read new books
I think that the most that the majority of people know about formats is you must get the correct format for your reader, or the correct software for your tablet. Kind of like hand soap. Hard soap won't work in a dispenser, and liquid soap sucks in a soap dish, but we are all able to use either and both wash your hands. And we can convert them to the appropriate soap format if we want to but most of us don't.
Helen