Thread: NYT: Jeff Bezos: Kindle Books and Readers Are Separate Businesses
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Old 06-16-2009, 09:24 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I think Jeff Bezos is full of it. If he really wanted the books to be seperate from the Kindle, he would have just gone with standard Mobipocket DRM.
I still fail to grasp why - if Amazon bought Mobipocket to get the software - the Mobipocket DRM won't work on the Kindle? Or, why can't Kindle owners legally buy Mobipocket books from their website as with Webscriptions. Owned but separate? Or have I totally missed something here?
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