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Alisa · 02-26-2010, 08:42 PM

No. I think it would take some big DRM-free competition to get Amazon to do it just like Amazon did to Apple with music. Of course, to do that someone would also need to get the publishers on board. Ebooks are far from being the competition to print that mp3s were to CDs. The music industry was over a barrel. Publishers aren't. In fact, I often think they would like to slow down the rate at which readers move away from paper. I don't doubt that DRM-free will be the way of things eventually. I'm just not going to hold my breath waiting for it.

02-26-2010, 08:42 PM	#3
Alisa Gadget Geek Posts: 2,324 Karma: 22221 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: Paperwhite, Kindle 3 (retired), Skindle 1.2 (retired)	No. I think it would take some big DRM-free competition to get Amazon to do it just like Amazon did to Apple with music. Of course, to do that someone would also need to get the publishers on board. Ebooks are far from being the competition to print that mp3s were to CDs. The music industry was over a barrel. Publishers aren't. In fact, I often think they would like to slow down the rate at which readers move away from paper. I don't doubt that DRM-free will be the way of things eventually. I'm just not going to hold my breath waiting for it. Last edited by Alisa; 02-26-2010 at 08:55 PM.