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Originally Posted by odamizu
This concerns me as well, perhaps because I feel so burned by BN. I'm also wondering how much of BN's changes were publisher-driven -- trying to tighten up the loosest DRM scheme, as it were. And wasn't the "hardened DRM" in ADE 3+ created to appease publishers? Not sure how much Amazon would resist if publishers pressured them to tighten their DRM. After all, doing so would help them keep Kindle users in the fold. Then again, it would mean non-Kindle owners who liberate Kindlebooks would stop buying from them.
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In the beginning Amazon was impressive with keeping DRM off of mp3 downloads. Also they still allow publishers to choose whether or not to apply DRM to ebooks. But as they get larger I suspect they are more comfortable with lock in, and have already had to cave a bit to publishers, and they are now interested in pushing their ecosystem like Apple and Google, with hardware and everything that goes with it. So being wary is probably best.