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Originally Posted by Sirtel
For me it wouldn't matter if I had a device to read it on or not. I'm not going to buy anything with DRM that cannot be removed. I want to adjust formatting and make a personal backup, neither of which can be done with DRM intact.
And not buying/reading a book at all... easily. I already have far more unread books in my library than I could read in several lifetimes. So for me it makes no sense at all to buy a book with an unremovable DRM.
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But that's an issue that has more to do with DRM removal tools than with Amazon. As you say, we are talking about the future, not something that will happen now. If in the future you were unable to remove DRM from ebooks bought from Kobo, Google or your favourite bookstore, would you stop buying them there? Your logical answer is yes, but that's something no one is considering right now. Amazon, on the other hand, is always under fire for something that hasn't happened yet.
In any case, what differentiates me from your position is that I would still buy ebooks from Kobo, Google or my favourite bookstore even if I couldn't remove the DRM because I have devices to read them, which is what I'm interested in doing. (In fact that's what I do when I download an ebook from my public library, although here it's not a question of "ownership", but of not being able to read it on certain e-readers or with certain reading software unless I remove the DRM). The option of going back to printed books is not one I contemplate.