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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
? I thought the program in question made it possible to put DRMed Mobipocket books on Kindle? Not to use Kindle books on anything else? So I don't see how they could be worried about people buying Kindle books and reading them on non-Kindles.
Maybe I'm just confused...
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The problem is that it allows people to purchase DRMed eBooks from another source other then Amazon.com for DRMed eBooks. And it also allows people to borrow library eBooks as well. Granted Amazon owns Mobipocket, but I'm thinking it's more of rthe fact that because Amazon.com hosts all the Kindle DRMed eBooks, they don't have to share any of the profit with anyone else. If I was to purchase from another shop, that shop would get some of the profit. And if I borrow from a library, Amazon gets nothing at all. And because the iPhone/iPod Touch have been figured out so the AZW eBooks can be liberated and the DRM stripped, Apple is worried that the reverse is going to be true. That Kindle eBooks will be used on other devices.