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Amazon is closing a Kindle loophole that makes it easy to remove DRM by Matthew Sholtz[/colohich struck me as a regurgitation of several other articles I've see until I ran into the following verbiage about the different Amazon ebook formats:
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As you can imagine, each format works differently and displays differently. This is how Amazon offers some of the best-formatted e-books on the market (blowing ePub out of the water)
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Which made me wonder about what world Matthew Sholtz is living in and if he realizes that many of the ebooks on Amazon are produced from ePub originals. |
Pure Amazon PR. Almost all are created from epub and the so called "advanced typesetting" could be done from an azw3 file.
Also it's not really about DRM (for publishers), but about securing the walled garden. If a publisher selects "DRM free", the azw3 or mobi really is unencrypted. But the KFX is still encrypted, though may copy to other Amazon apps/devices.
The ending of D&T is also about making people have the app or Kindle online so they know more. That's why KU works the way it does. The big publishers don't require other libraries to do that invasion of privacy. It's a deliberate choice by Amazon. They want to make buying an ebook the same as KU so that they no more. It's a lie that's it's about DRM loopholes since no other ebook shop (Barnes & Noble is a real book shop and USA only and Apple is what Amazon are copying) requires the ereader device/app to wirelessly. connect.