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Originally Posted by John F
To play Devil's Advocate: Amazon has prevented a lot of pirates  *,**.
* I do not mean that Timboli is a pirate. I am refering to actual pirates (argh) who strip DRM and distribute.
** Yeah, yeah, yeah... We all "know" that DRM does not prevent piracy. |
Yeah, well I doubt any of Amazon's actions have prevented true pirates from getting good copies of any ebooks.
So it is likely the only ones they would be impacting, are those who don't share anyway, who are just folk who want to properly own what they paid for, in as much as they can be flexible with it and not be tied to a specific device or store.
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On another note, the irony of me not wanting to use the Amazon Kindle website, but kind of being forced to, because an ebook yesterday and one today, that are on sale, at both Kobo and Amazon, don't have a preview option at Kobo, but they do at Amazon. So I check them there, and then buy at Kobo.
That has certainly happened a few times over the years. A lot of authors or publishers seem to imperfectly support their product at Kobo, even poorly at times.
I've even gotten some first ebooks in a trilogy for free at Kobo, to find that the rest of the trilogy, is either only available at Amazon, or the price is much cheaper there for books 2 & 3.