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Originally Posted by kjk
Not to sidetrack the discussion, but as we've seen on the music side, the problem with server based DRM systems is, the companies in charge don't even have to go abruptly out of business at all. Microsoft and Yahoo both decided to stop supporting their subscription music services, and shut down their servers. In Microsoft's case, they weren't even getting out of the music business-they just had a different model they wanted to sell, with an incompatible DRM system (Zune Pass).
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And Wal-mart WMA's. Many years ago I bought a few from them. I quickly figured out I didn't want to buy anything with DRM and got the same albums in MP3 format, of course with no DRM. Sure enough, a few years later Wal-mart decided to get out of the WMA biz, and shut the servers down..... Never again........
Any company can and will change their business. It's progress, and it will happen. I would bet a steak dinner that in 20 years (2030) there will be no Kindle. Amazon (if it's still called that) will have been bought and sold a few times, and all of this a distant memory.....
As I said before, bottom line .... learn to strip DRM. Without the DRM it really does not matter where you bought the book from, because it will then be YOUR book.