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Originally Posted by charleski
It's pretty obvious that a typical end user would like to buy a shiny new iPad and still be able to read the books bought for their old Sony. It's pretty obvious that the current fractured state of the ebook market in which books bought at store A won't work on device X is a major factor in limiting its growth and merely causes frustration for customers. Of course that's a 'bad thing'!
This has nothing to do with 'extreme users', who will simply strip the DRM and convert the format. This is about the ordinary customer who simply wants to be able to read the books they bought.
It's certainly not about quality control. It's about Apple wanting to snub Adobe for wider political reasons.
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you call it political, i call it smart business. which makes more sense? maybe its both, who knows.
but the one huge advantage that the iPad has over any other eBook reader (e-ink or lcd) is Apple's AppStore. right there you have Stanza which can read several formats, you have Amazon's Kindle app to read any books purchased in Kindle format and you also have a Barnes & Noble eBook reader so you can read any books purchased that would otherwise be read on the Nook. so right there you've accomplished compatibility with 2 heavyweights in the business in a very very easy to use way. can you give me any other eBook readers out there that can just as easily (i.e. without converting using some other software) read both Kindle and Nook eBooks?
who's to say that adobe or someone else doesn't build an app for the iPad to allow reading of those other DRM'd books?