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Originally Posted by cellaris
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.
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We are see what Amazon is doing. They are changing the DRM for KFX in the Kindle apps. They've monkeyed with the DRM for KFX before. They are not allowing D&T for new Kindles. The question is what will Amazon do in the future? We don't know.
We are just saying what we'd do IF.