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Originally Posted by dougf4
Perhaps Amazon will succeed in capturing a huge captive market but most likely the rebellious and down trodden eserfs (such as myself) will likely raise their virtual pitchforks in angst by continuing to loyally support their chosen formats.
Much like Mozilla has done against Microsoft with the Firefox browser and Linux continues to do against Windows, I suspect that many of the now chosen formats and readers will remain as viable. Open Source rebels will dash to the rescue to deny total victory to the Amazonians. In dribs and drabbles enough money will still be spent on non-Amazon/B&N formats to keep things moving in a northerly direction.
I think it is highly likely that the conquerors will have even more minions sitting smartly in the wireless cafes while a shrinking population of we eserfs will labor away in our curtained parlors working feverishly to maintain our own technological status quo. But we will remain and never be vanquished to the way of the Conquerors.
Here's to a hearty hoorah for the heroes who will lead the charge.
"We can't all be heroes. Some of us have to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." - Will Rogers
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You might never be vanquished, but your numbers will be so small that you simply will remain an insignificant nonfactor not worth bothering about!
I care more about reading then I do about DRM. Most around here just seem to be worked up about not being able to do EVERYTHING that they may or may not have done with paper books.
While it's nice to have principles, they are pretty meaningless if upholding them means suffering for no good reason. So long as you don't lock yourself into just one store like Amazon & B&N you can survive future changes & still have options.
Right now the options are fewer & some of you make sure you have even fewer options by refusing to buy DRM restricted books.
50% of my books are DRM'd but they are authors & genre's that I love to read. I'm not about to start reading genre's or books I don't like just because they aren't restricted. That just doesn't make any sense.
So long as YOU the purchasers are able to read the books that YOU have purchased, that is all that is truly important. If one of my friends want to read the book, GO BUY IT YOURSELF.
I think that eventually there will just be 1 ereader format aka Epubs. Once that happens, all this will be moot.
Cutting off your nose to spite your face just hurts you no one else.