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Originally Posted by twaits
That's not the issue. The problem is, what you do in 2-3 years, if you want a different reader. Do you buy all your ebooks again?
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Well, if I've read all the books why would I want to buy them again? Oh, and I could still read them on my PC, my iPod and whatever future devices Amazon adds support for.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Exactly. If say I wanted to get say a Plastic Logic to go along with my 505, I'd be able to use the same ePub books on both devices. With Amazon's DRM, I'm locked into Amazon and their devices. I have less choice. Who besides Amazon is releasing readers (or is not updating them) to support ePub via ADE?
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I could of course remove the DRM. But, then I am a pirate right. So perhaps it is just easier to darknet them in the first place.
If I do get a second device, it won't be to read the same eBooks that I have on my Kindle. It will be to read the programming and tech books that I buy now in PDF... all of which are DRM free. (Well, most have "social DRM like pragmatic bookshelf embeds my name in each PDF. Not that I couldn't remove it if I wanted too.)
But truly, I hope in 3 years or so the publishing community will come to the same conclusions that the music publishers have... DRM is a waste of time and money... and they will drop it.
Also, playing devils ad advocate there is no proof that something won't come along and superceed ePub.
Finally, I don't care what happens 3 years from now. I want to read ebooks today... and when I bought the kindle the kindle store was second to none for choice and price. Still seems to be actually.
Bottom line, I don't know what will happen in 3 years from now. Perhaps Amazon will decide that Adobe DRM and ePub are the way to go. Maybe they won't. I'm happy where I am right now.
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