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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I don't believe that Amazon or any of the major ebook stores insist on DRM, that's up to the publisher (and author). The fundamental issue for a new "reading containers" is being able to easily buy and access the books you buy. It's pretty tough to get easier than Amazon or Apple for buying and loading books right now. I normally use Marvin to read, but to use Marvin, I have to download the book onto my computer, strip out the DRM, convert it to epub and then download it to my reading device (iPad for me). That is a lot more effort than the see book, read book that one has from the Kindle or iBook.
Frankly, the issue with ebooks isn't the proprietary systems, it's the percentage of people who actually like to read.
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I know this is going to sound really strange coming from me: but I completely agree with you.
The vast, vast majority people buying ebooks are completely unaffected by (and mostly unaware of) DRM and Walled Gardens.
And "Beautiful, efficient and innovative" is for the niche and/or elite crowd. That's true of all books (whether physical or electronic). Everybody else is looking for the quickest/easiest way to get the words of the ebooks they bought in front of their eyes, so they can read them and move on to the next ebook. None of the major players are hampering those folks in the least ('cept maybe for B&N
).