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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Only because customers demanded the right to play their music on any device they want, and to continue to be able to play it in the event of the company they bought it from going out of business or losing interest (like with Microsoft's mp3 service a while ago).
I was actually quite surprised that ebook sellers had decided to play the same trick on their customers. You wouldn't read a book as often as you listened to a music file, so probably the first time you find out you have to buy it again will be when you decide you want to read it again.
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Yeah, we can only hope that as time goes on and markets expand we'll see DRM go away for books like it did for Music.
As I said above, I don't mind it much as I seldom re-read and with things like the Kindle apps for computers, Ipad, Phones etc. the access problem isn't as bad as it could be if you could only read it on your e-reader device.
Though ibooks has that problem since that app is only on the iPad currently. So if I got an iPad I'd probably mainly just use the Kindle app (already have a Kindle).