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Originally Posted by LaughingVulcan
One of the other questions (the biggest for me, and I think for many) is the question of portability. We see this here all the time, expressed more or less as, "I hate DRM because then I am tied to {Mobipocket, eReader, Sony, Adobe, etc.}"
To me, most (if not all) of my objections to DRM would go away if I can be assured that the books I buy this year will work next year. Or, more on point, should Sony decide to yank Connect Store, quit selling the Reader, and shut it down a la their music service, how will I then enjoy my books when the Reader breaks?
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It's precisely that, LV, which has led to my decision to pretty much abandon the Reader and go with MobiPocket format on all my devices. It's the DRM format which is available on vastly more different platforms than any other, and I'm confident that I'll be able to buy readers which support it for the foreseeable future. I think it's inevitable that BBeB will become and "orphaned" format in the future, with only Sony supporting it.
MobiPocket DRM is rapidly becoming - so it seems to me - the
de facto industry standard.