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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Your whole post seems to boil down this this.
You seem to be castigating everyone for not doing anything about KFX. What do you think people could do? Please try to reply in three paragraphs or less.
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Create a public stance on how you see .kfx as a format. (You have to get together and discuss this, even without me as an activist voice, because at this point you all know what I am saying...
) -- How "not being allowed to understand a format " is different from DRM.
My position would be, that books shouldn't be allowed to become "Coke", where the formula is secret, and you always are getting a certain value add from buying a specific brand - even though you might actually grow to like it.
I currently see even journalist struggling with the notion of what is allowed and what is not (if any one of you can read german this (
http://derstandard.at/2000036874605/...raktisch-teuer ) is an article from a top 2 newsoutlet (online and print by number of uniques) that states that you can ONLY read books with DRM on the Kindle Oasis).
In the comments this doesn't get contested very much, because the argument has become so granular at this point.
The future is "Spotify for books" anyways, right? And its only the dodgy folks that still care about "what the format is". -- I see this as the current concept a majority would have about this industry.
If mobileread could stand for a different view, and voice that opinion I think it would be valuable.
(Be aware, that every one of those sentences should be considered "loaded"..
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