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Old 12-05-2014, 05:35 PM   #35
DuckieTigger
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell View Post
Thanks Tigger. Won't be syncing across other devices, but won't I be able to buy Amazon books from say, a Kobo reader? And not quite sure what you mean by investing in the right book store.
No, you won't be able to buy Amazon books from a Kobo reader and vice versa. Investing in the wrong book store goes for books that cannot get their DRM removed easily. If you cannot remove the DRM and keep a copy of your book as a backup you will potentially lose access to your books in the future. Also with DRM it will be impossible to convert a book from a Kobo friendly book to a Kindle friendly book. Kobo does epub/kepub books, a Kindle does Amazon books. Both are not compatible with each other.

Everybody has a walled garden, some are worse than others. The worst is arguably Apple with their ibooks from the itunes store. Good luck getting the DRM removed or to read the books on anything but the iBooks app (on macos, iphone, ipod, or ipad only). Google has an app in the appstore, iBook app on Android? No way.
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