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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Amazon has offered to license out their DRM scheme. No one decided to take them up on that offer.
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Do you have a linky, I know mobi DRM could be licensed (Although it required exclusivity) but I don't recall seeing anything about any Amazon DRM (Or in fact any released details on the formats used which would be required to implement). If it was available I'd have thought at least one independent manufacturer (Bookeen or Pocketbook probably) would have attempted to market one. If no one else then Waterstones who rather bizarrely sell ADE epubs and hardware kindles (But no epub readers) would surely be selling amazon compatible ebooks if they could.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Myself, I don't consider Adobe DRM to be one iota better than Amazon DRM. In order for my books to be properly accessible, they cannot have an DRM at all, and at that point it doesn't really matter what DRM scheme, if any, a specific device uses.
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I'm sort of in agreement with Jon here
I'll agree that social or no DRM would be better but as it stands your non-techie average user can buy from one of Amazon/Apple/B&N
OR Pretty much anywhere else. I've already had WH Smith, Sony, BoB, Diesel (Really, I'm the kiss of death to ebook sellers, they should stop me having an account) close down and the transfers have been fairly seemless (even without counting Kobo taking on all the accounts) because they all used the same DRM, so even if google shuts down tomorrow and gives no provision to move the account I can still read all the already downloaded books on a newly purchased device, the same cannot be said for Amazon, B&N or Apple.
It's the difference between vendor lock in and format lock in, if they would let anyone else play in their back yard I wouldn't mind so much.