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Originally Posted by Moejoe
So what you're saying is that I should just accept DRM because it doesn't come into play for the average user? Why would I do that? I don't want DRM on anything I purchase and I won't accept it. Not on music, films or anything else.
Further to that point, are you really insisting that because ePub can be converted to other formats it shouldn't be adopted? That makes no sense at all. It's the standard, it's easy to create, it's flexible and it looks good, there's plenty of reasons it should be adopted.
As to the Sony, I don't own one, I'm waiting to buy a device that isn't encumbered with lock-ins to particular stores or needs DRM to be in any way useable.
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thats gonna be close to 5-10 years then.
Epub is very Processor Intencive and slow, its made to be converted, and the way the kindle is set up, you can have an epub book and read it on a kindle. It flexability is exactly what makes it convertable to a format that can be read anywhere
Epubs are not easy to create, they look like crap unless you hand code them.
the Kindle is more Open than an Ipod is today even, and Ipods sells like hot cakes. Ipods File systems are still Locked down, you still need their propritary software to use it, and only recently did they pull DRM from their Labels, and that was only by Strong Arming the Music Industry after they took them over. Amazon cannot strong arm publishers yet, and for the moment they want their kindle store locked down and Proprietary, they are simply the best, but the market is still small, they want to sell their devices with their library, grow the market out, and then take over fully, they plan on opening their library soon to Cell Phones, and when they do, I suspect they will start offering DRM free books too.