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Old 12-13-2006, 02:55 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I suspect that DRM must put a lot of people off buying eBooks. I'm a bit of a "gadget freak" and am rarely using the same eBook reader now that I was a year ago. I would be highly dubious about buying commercial eBooks which "locked me in" to a specific device. That's why the only commercial eBooks I buy are the open-format ones from Baen. I know that whatever device I'm using next year, my RTF, HTML, etc, books are going to either work fine on it directly, or be easily converted to work on it.
If you aren't familiar with it, you should check the multiformat (nonDRM) books out at fictionwise.com.
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