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Old 01-28-2025, 05:37 PM   #6
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1. Seems to be only for USA.
2. Tied to their app, so you don't really get to have the ebook. Yes, B&N, Apple, Amazon do that, but Kobo and Google don't as they use ADE for DRM.

It seems ill-conceived and doomed without all the big publishers directly involved as an alternate to Amazon. Sony gave up. Apple went DRM free on mp3s. Publishers need to do that or Amazon will completely own the market. DRM doesn't stop pirates and Amazon has already over 90% of world wide English Ebooks and about 80% of USA online paper format sales.

Smashwords/Draft2Digital will outlast it.

it certainly doesn't support any of my local bookstores.
You left out eBooks.com for not forcing the use of an app.

I did check the ISBN of one of the eBooks and it matched the ISBN of the same eBook at Kobo. So I'm thinking they use ePub. I don't know what can be done or not. I would need a free eBook with DRM to try.
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