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Originally Posted by Victoria
I buy drm'd books regularly. I accept that there needs to be some kind of protection against piracy. I wish there were a way to lend an ebook to my sisters or a good friend, as I do with paper books - say to 4 people. However, that's not an option yet. Since libraries can do it now, I think this will happen with time.
Though I'm fine with drm, I'm really annoyed about not being able to read my Sony ebooks on my iPad. I accept drm to protect authors, but I don't accept being locked into a particular device. That is why I am now buying from amazon and kobo instead of Sony. I did buy more than $400 from Sony before I had other devices and understood they were captive on my sony 505. I do reread books and I want to have the option to switch devices as tech moves ahead - so I only buy books from vendors who build that flexibility in right from the start.
It seems to me that there are 2 philosophies - vendors who want to sell books, and their readers are secondary, and companies that want to sell hardware, and they keep you captive by not allowing the books on other devices. I'm sticking with vendors who want to sell books.
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You are mistaken. The books your bought from Sony, originally in Sony's LRX format, can now be downloaded in ePub format from Sony for no extra charge. Adobe's ePub format is probably the most widely usable DRM format.
The only devices that use a different DRM system are Amazon's Kindle (hardware and software) (Kindle/Mobipocket format and DRM) and Apple's iPad (iBooks software) (ePub and Apple's FairPlay DRM).
The only way to have books that can be read (if necessary converted) on any current and future ebook reading hardware/software is to have books without DRM, either by only buying from publishers who don't use DRM, or by stripping DRM, or by getting pirate copies which don't have DRM.
ANY ebook you buy with DRM is limited to a subset of reading devices.