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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
The sad thing is that these are just more of the same fights we've watched e-books suffer through for years, but ramped up by bigger players, and it's not getting us anywhere. How long will we have to put up with such myopic thinking and monopolistic shenanigans before we all wise up to common formats and pro-consumer business practices?
I pulled my e-books out of the Kindle store at the end of the year, because I wasn't happy with the way they treated me as an author. If you can't make authors happy, and you can't make consumers happy... how happy do you think the middlemen are going to be? Amazon, you're cruisin' for a bruisin'...
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I bought nearly all of your books directly from you not long ago. Didn't know they were on Amazon, but I'm happier with the non-DRM versions. Much happier. Will be able to read them for years.
As for Kindle's .AZW, well, I maintain backups of my Kindle's files offline, and in 5-10 years, who knows. Kindle like devices likely will exist, but there are other options. Not worried for now.
Amazon really has to step up a bit, once the market matures, and try to wean themselves and publishers off DRM.
Also, they could trivially support MobiPocket DRM but it's probably a licensing issue (theirs/publishers)... ePub though... I wonder... they could do that do with some firmware updates. Just like Sony did. In full time, we'll see.
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