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Old 10-22-2009, 08:12 PM   #92
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon View Post
Huh? What other readers can display AZW and TPZ files?

ePub files, on the other hand, can be displayed on many readers - many support Adobe's DRM, and most of those will take advantage of the Q1 2010 update to add B&N DRM support as well.

Amazon are very much standing alone with their file formats!
If the content is DRM'd, it doesn't make much of a difference which format it's in. If it's not DRM'd, it also doesn't matter what the format is, since it can always be converted. The DRM is the issue, not the format.


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So why have they waited so long?
That's a tougher question to answer. As I stated in a previous post, it might have been a matter of adding touchscreen and Whispernet capability to the reader. Obviously, I can't answer definitively, but it's been fairly obvious ever since they released the reader for the iPhone that their business model wasn't based on selling Kindles. The Kindle is about empowering users to buy books any time, anywhere. It's all about the books. That's what makes the move to other devices inevitable: Amazon doesn't want you to spend one second of the day unable to buy a book for them.

I don't really see how it could be a matter of changing the DRM. They've got to maintain compatibility with the Kindles, so I don't see how an improved (from the publisher's point of view) DRM would work.
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