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Originally Posted by cavi
However I personally like buying kindle format and converting it to use on my Sony Reader. I find amazon easier to deal with than the sony store, and that way I have the book on my e-book and my iphone if I want.
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I don't think that most people will bother to do that though.
I believe that DRM is required many of the publishers, and some writers. If Amazon is in favor of it or not isn't too important at this point. It can be gotten around.
If Amazon sticks with only the Kindle DRM format they arn't really locking in sales. What they
are doing is locking out most of the
average e-book customers.
I can now scan in & convert library books to e-books, whoopty do. I
could buy ebooks from Amazon, strip the DRM, & convert to epub. I
could search the net and get the latest books free.
But if I can buy it, I do (my personal preference is to buy non-DRM books, but that's a different topic).
I believe (but can't find it) that the most popular e-book catagories are romance/fantasy books. And I don't think that a 14 year old girl reading a supernatural romance novel cares about DRM.
Back to the point. There are a lot of
other e-readers out there. Does Amazon ignore the potential sales?