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Originally Posted by dickloraine
What is more troublesome than the format, is how attractive it is to publish on amazon. If self published authors make 90% of their money on amazon, it makes sense for them to go exclusive with amazon. But that means, it becomes increasingly difficult to compete in that market with amazon, if you have nothing to sell.
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I agree. I don't want Amazon to be the only game in town. Right now I can buy their exclusive titles and convert and read them on any device I choose. I am concerned about both .kfx and the new Adobe drm. But I do get sick of the Amazon is the devil crowd and the scare-mongering that goes on. We certainly don't have a big problem in the short term, and likely not even in the medium term. But it is certainly a concern that in the longer term we may eventually face a situation where ebook drm is effective, with the resultant loss of freedom that entails. Hopefully that will then result in an increased incentive for hackers to break the formats/drm concerned, which of course is what has happened in the past.