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Old 06-16-2010, 08:47 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole View Post
The people that leave DRM are screwed no matter what. Eventually the company they buy from will go out of business, change formats....whatever. So 20 years from now odds are they will be unable to read the books they "own" on the then current reading devices. But the Amazon buyers will be even more screwed than the ADE buyers. Amazon books are tied to Amazon readers (just as Amazon wants it).
More screwed? If Adobe goes down you won't be able to unlock your books (legitimately) no matter what ADE device you are using.

If Amazon would go under -- you are in the same boat. Your kindle device (whether an actual kindle or a device running kindle software) -- will read all the books you have loaded on it already.

It is not likely that Amazon or Adobe is going to abruptly go out of business any time soon.

However, it is QUITE likely that the device you are reading on today is not going to be the device you want to read on tomorrow. Amazon is WAY ahead in the number of devices you can read their books on.

But - at least we agree on the advisability of removing the DRM from the books you've bought.

ePub vs. .mobi (or .lit etc.) isn't a big deal to me. It's the DRM that affects portability. With software like Calibre, you can go from one format to another, if it wasn't for DRM.

Since Adobe is just another DRM scheme, it is not "more safe" because it's epub -- just as Apple is not 'open' because it's epub. DRM is lock in no matter who does it.

To this day there is not great and easy support for Adobe DRM on Apple readers -- and no support at all on the kindle. And those two companies represent the present and the future of ebooks. The Sony and the Nook are barely a blip -- minor niche players in comparison.

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