Thread: NYT: Kindle books for everyone (not just Kindles)!
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Old 02-06-2009, 12:32 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by smee View Post
This kind of fits in with the discussions about Astak (EZReader) being told that devices in the US that support mobi DRM are not allowed to support any other DRM. If Amazon is going to open up their distribution, they probably want to monopolize it and discourage you from buying from anyone else.
The way I read RobertB's message was the Amazon would not allow them to sell the reader with Mobipocket support on it AT ALL. That they will be reoving Mobipocket support in a future firmware update.

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