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Yes they will, just d/l Kindle for PC or MAC or iPhone or iPod Touch or Blackberry.
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Well yes, but combined with the second point those are useless to me. I don't read books on my Mac.
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Agreed. But I can't legally read a book from the Sony store on my Kindle. Isn't that restrictive?
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Yes it is, but doesn't the responsibility for that restriction lie mainly with Amazon? Or at least half of it anyway. I understand they have made it very clear that they don't want you to read paid content on the Kindle unless it was bought from them. But maybe that has changed?
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BTW: Apple will be more restrictive than Amazon. Although I am assuming you can read the eBooks you buy from the iBook store on your Mac or PC... but no one knows yet.
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I agree Apple will be at least as restrictive. I don't know about more, I don't know the details. And I don't like it from Apple either, though I don't care much because I don't read books on my iTouch, or plan to buy an iPad. But yes, it's just as bad coming from Apple as from Amazon.
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The truth is DRM of any kind is restrictive. you have to have the right software or hard ware which supports said DRM.
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True!
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It is actually the Publishers you should be mad at here... not Amazon.
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Why? Because of DRM? OK, I am.
What I'm angry at Amazon for, specifically, is as I said, trying very hard to make the mobi format unavailable to anybody who (1) doesn't have a Kindle and (2) doesn't buy the books from them.