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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Ereader manufacturers and ebook retailers (who should be separate entities) must come to their senses and realise that simple sells books and delivery devices. You can't expect to drive a reading revolution if you make ebooks tough to buy and encourage innocent readers to adopt shady practices to get around greed-built roadblocks.
Neil
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Agree with your comments in principle.
Point of logic though: you assume the "Ereader manufacturers and ebook retailers" are trying to "drive a reading revolution." I would suggest it's a subtle difference, but these groups are interested in one thing and one thing alone - the bottom line.
Profit $ are what's in their eyes, nothing more nothing less. And if that aligns with a "reading revolution" then lucky for us, if not, screw us and squeeze us for every nickel (BTW, us = the readers and consumers).
The true drivers of the reading revolution are the readers - members of forums like this, freeware and open source software developers that create tools like Sigil, Calibre, FBReader and CoolReader, and define true open formats like FB2 that allow users to truly optimise their use of reading content.
Cynical? Maybe...
