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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Amazon's DRM support has nothing to do with readers. It's there to placate publishers... mainly, publishers who have largely avoided e-books before Amazon, and want to be hand-held through the process of going digital. Amazon may actually be worried about loss, but as long as they have such large volume, they can afford to ignore what waste there is (as evidenced by many of their other business and shipping practices). As always, Amazon does what makes them successful, with little thought to the practicality, ethics or popularity of their decisions.
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Of course it doesn't have anything to do with readers. That's why they're offering files in a format that can be read on multiple readers, like ePub, instead of a locked-in format like the kindle has. Oh, wait...