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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
It's all moot anyway. As other have already noted, there's no advantage to be gained in Amazon stopping users from side-loading their own books. They'd have to be forced to make such a decision. Who's going to force Amazon to do something like that?
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Actually Amazon need not be involved at all. It only requires Kindle to take action and a deal between the publishers and kindle to offer lower prices through, perhaps, Amazon to kindle customers in return for protection - well that is more than possible.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
How has a discussion about a new ePub DRM system become turned to how big bad Amazon is going to screw people over?
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Because that's about the only way it can happen. Simple DRM doesn't work and won't work. To work requires control of any device the user cares to use as a reader.