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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But most people will be purchasing a Kindle to be able to read current eBooks. These are mostly eBooks that would be DRMed. So for most people, Amazon is the only place.
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Forum ate my post... I'll try it again.
Yes, I get that and if the tone of her article was "DRM is horrible, we need to do open things up" I'd be standing up applauding her.
The article which starts with a fallacy winds through the first amendment, makes a stop off with twitter and facebook and end, with the end of the American Way of Life because people stop reading feels more like FUD then an article written by a Professor of anything. No one is going to stop reading because of the Kindle, just like no one stopped listening to music because of the iPod. And I'm really put off by her "for the love of all that's Holy, get to a library before it's to late! Civilization may be at stake!", attitude. If I were more cynical, I'd say she was a buggy whip manufacturer in the days of the horseless carriage or, worse yet, a music executive.
I agree DRM is bad, it's not the device. This is why I'm looking at
alternate distribution models. If the DRM is the problem, don't blame the device, make sure you put DRM-free content on it.