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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
Will this affect your ebook buying habits? Do you expect to go to vendors other than Amazon to get your books, and if so, what vendors will you use?
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I prefer my base format to be EPUB, and most of the time, Kobo is cheaper for me in The Netherlands, especially if I get to apply a coupon.
However, I do still consider Amazon (sometimes they have books Kobo doesn't have), and purchase these books there. This has happened only four times though.
So, my purchasing habits will not change much, apart from the fact that I *won't* consider Amazon anymore if I can't un-DRM an ebook. For that to happen, I'd have to sell my old KPW1 (and thus it's serial number). I think my KPW1 will 'exist' forever, at least by its serial number, even if the device breaks. Thus, Amazon would need to stop supporting the KPW1 as a reader (which will take some years yet; AFAIK they still support the Kindle 1), and K4PC 1.17 would need to be abandoned by Amazon.
Because Amazon owns the readers, applications and formats, they can practically do whatever they want. Kobo, on the other hand, can't just switch over to Adobe's new DRM which was released with ADE 3.0, because *A LOT* of older readers don't support it, and e-readers stay in use for a long, long time. (If Kobo hadn't introduced a 7.8 inch reader, I would still be reading on my 2012 KPW1, and I only upgraded to that one from my Touch because of the light.)
ADE 3.x and 4.x can handle both the old and new DRM-schemes; it's the vendor who determines if a book uses the old or new scheme. Because so many old readers cannot use the new scheme, I think Kobo and the few remaining others will stay on the old scheme for quite some time to come, and thus ADE 2.01 will stay supported as well. Using that will make sure you never download a book using the new DRM-scheme.
So no, my purchasing habits won't change a lot because I don't buy a lot at Amazon.