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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
I don't know whether eReader is in trouble. But I suspect that any person and any store who relies heavily on DRM-locked Mobipocket is in trouble. Amazon is in the singular position of owning and licensing the DRM used by a considerable number of its e-book competitors. Not releasing an iPhone app that can read competitors' books may only be the first step.
http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/04/d...t-on-the-wall/ |
The problem is that Amazon is sending out a lot of mixed messages. They need to get their act together and sort this out and tell us what is really going on. Are they hampering Mobipocket now in favor of the Kindle version? What is their official stand on DRM? And once they (if they ever will) tell us what is really going on, they will then need to back it up with their actions. I mean we have Mobipocket saying there would be an app for the phone/touch and then rumors (that we all suspect are true) that the app was squashed by Amazon. Mobipocket has clammed up about the app and won't say a word about it. Now we have the Kindle app instead. The day someone figures out how to get the PID from the app is the day the books can possibly be liberated.
Come on Amazon, stop jerking us around and tell us what's really going on.