Thread: Newbie question on all this Amazon DRM stuff
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Old 03-16-2009, 05:16 PM   #58
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Why wait for Kindle? Amazon may already be in the process of creating a precedent.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/arti...rid=1192404514

Amazon To Drop Microsoft, Adobe e-Book Formats
By Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 1/26/2009 7:08:00 AM

Amazon.com has notified its publisher and author clients that it plans to cease offering e-books in the Microsoft Reader and Adobe e-book formats. In the future, the online retailer says it plans to offer only e-books in the Kindle format (for wireless download to its Kindle reading device) and the Mobipocket format, both of which are owned by Amazon. The online retailer’s note asks publishers and authors to make sure that Amazon has written permission to offer their books for sale in the Mobipocket format.

Consider your options after you buy an Adobe DRM'ed (I assume they have DRM) book from Amazon this year, wait until the support is gone, and now buy a new computer...If it was "PID"-locked like Kindle, you're "legal" "copy" is worthless than you paid for it.

I thought they dropped all those formats back when they dumped everyone's books in, was it 2005?
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