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Originally Posted by conan50
Eschwartz, We have already seen changes at B&N that deny access to ebooks. To say there is no danger to locked in systems is hyperbole, the very thing you seem to be implying about my post.
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Will you please make up your mind whether you are what-ifing about
- lockdown in vendor distribution systems
- file formats going obsolete
The first is a problem, although since you back up your books (right?
) the worst that can happen is you can no longer buy new books.
The second is pure, unadulterated FUD. We the users already made off with the keys. We own (pwn) the format. There is nothing Amazon can do about it unless they team up with mind-probing aliens (or gov'ts
).
B&N has not been able to deny anyone access to their books, ever, in any way, shape or form, to date -- unless that person was depending on the ability to continue downloading DRMed books from B&N's servers (and sideload it using ADE-slash-whatever).
And that doesn't even take maliciousness. People have lost their ebooks when stores went out of business, without any malice on the store's part.