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Originally Posted by rleguillow
So why then am I totally unable to read the 100+ ebooks I bought for my first ereader?
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I have a stack of Atari 800 games on cassette tapes gathering dust in a basement. Why can't I play them on my Mac with OS 10.6? Plus I've got all those Leading Edge Word Processing documents on 5.25" floppies.
It's unfortunate that you got spiked on the bleeding edge of a technology, but that can occur for any number of reasons. And further unfortunately, you are in a tiny percentage of people with this specific issue; i.e. if there are 10,000 or even 100,000 people who purchased unreadable and/or unconvertible .RB files, and 30 million iPhone owners who can purchase ebooks from over a dozen vendors, that puts you in the minority. Since the ebook market is much larger now, and is about to explode in popularity into an environment where your ebooks are not locked to a specific hardware device, and where vendors like Sony are moving towards standards like ePub, you have my sympathies but not my agreement with your characterization of the current environment.
By the way, in theory Rocketbook may try to make a comeback. Take up DRM-removal or multi-platform support with whatever organization is trying to revive the name.
