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Originally Posted by pilotbob
They never charged the end user for the reader. But, remember you have to activate your reader to MS Passport, er Live ID. I assume the vendors that can create/encrypt .LIT files have to pay some licensing fee to Microsoft.
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Possible. I don't really know. But I suspect the revenue involved will be trivial in overall terms for MS.
My fundamental point is that I don't believe MS Reader and the LIT format ever gained much traction as an end user solution for reading ebooks. Who actually uses MS Reader these days to read ebooks? Who buys books in LIT format, for any reason save that it's easy to strip the DRM and convert to a preferred format?
I don't know anyone...
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Dennis