Thread: DRM, DeDRM, and ebook formats
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Old 01-17-2025, 05:27 AM   #82
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You need a bigger battery for same run time, which adds expense.

Also the entire ebook eco-system at Amazon is now "money down the back of sofa" / "Lemonade stall" sized. They likely spend more on the web / server development than the Linux ereaders or Android tablet (Fire). It's only the application on each that's much effort and non-display parts might be very similar. The Fire is likely using close to what is the Android App. Probably the iOS app is more effort.

Also most readers of Kindle ebooks use an App (Android/Fire or iOS).

Stock Android UI is poor on eink, so Android eink would save them little in total cost of the Kindle eco-system development.

Switching to MTP for Kindle eink is likely more about having more than 32 G Flash and not having FAT32 and extra security, not about having code in common with the Amazon Fire (an Android tablet).
How would the battery life of an Android Reader be if you disabled all the useless/unneeded tasks/programs that run by default?
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