Thread: Amazon is (possibly) working on a colour e-reader
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Old 07-10-2016, 01:49 PM   #39
WT Sharpe
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Well... as you may know, I'm very outspoken about DRM on e-books. I also know a lot about the history of DRM, and companies that just left their customers hanging when they went out of business; saddling customers hundreds or thousands of euro's of inaccessible or lost content.

I once wrote a post here on MobileRead about why encryption DRM was bad, and why I would never buy content that can not be un-DRM-ed (except if I don't care to lose said content, such as some $5 play-once-and-forget games at Steam).

GoodEReader took that post, and made an article out of it, stating that it was written 'by an expert in the field of publishing.' If I remember correctly, I even mentioned that here on MR.

Since that time, GoodEReader has been marked as an untrustworthy source for me.
I was joking when I quoted that (2011) link to GoodEReader, but that does make me wonder if I've ever been quoted as an expert on that site.
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