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Originally Posted by fugazied
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Amazon is limiting the usefulness of their device to appease publishers first and foremost. Publishers who wish to squeeze every cent out of their users. Publishers who constantly seek to expand upon copyright laws through government lobbyists.
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How do you know that the publishers are at the root of this? (Buy once from mobipocket for your XYZ device, buy a second time for the same e-book from Amazon.com/kindle for Kindle)? Or, ditto re the public library scenario: No, you can't "borrow" this for some circumstance that Amazon (Publisher) doesn't "approve" (via DMCA).
It may well publisher induced, or it may be an Amazon-only applied restriction.
Does anyone on this thread have any data or facts to distinguish the source of these DRM restrictions?
I don't, and I am wondering if anyone else does. Who made these decisions? Amazon unilaterally, or Amazon restricted by publishers, or is it title by title, or something else?
I'm raising this point to ensure nobody bases a conclusion on a false assumption. (almost anything can be proved from a false assumption)