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Originally Posted by HarryT
One doesn't have to like DRM to accept the commercial reality of the fact that the big booksellers are always going to want to use it.
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I wouldn't say
always. If they get the idea they can do acceptable business without it, why use it?
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If ePub doesn't support it, I suspect that that will only strengthen MobiPocket's position - they seem to be increasingly becoming the market leaders.
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Because Mobi makes a version of the reader for just about everything, so there's less concern about whether you can
read a Mobi title.
And since Amazon bought them and made the reader freeware, they have that much more momentum, because there is no cost of entry to be
able to read Mobi titles. They're using the "Give the razor away free, and make money on the blades" model, which I think is sensible.
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Dennis