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Originally Posted by VillageReader
There are two hurdles the Mobipocket seems to have.
1. A four device limitation might have made sense at one time. But I have an office and home computer, a Palm, and an Iliad. Why four? The number could increase in recognition of the pervasiveness of electronics.
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Do you read books on your home and office computers? If you don't, you only need to register the MobiPocket ID of your Palm and your iLiad, not those of your computers.
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2. Transferability. Most electronic devices have a life of 3-5 years. Books have a lot longer useful life. Once an ebook is purchased there are too many gyrations to get the ebook 'upgraded' to work on a new device. There needs to be an easy method that both respects copyrights and user rights to convert an older USER ID to a USER ID when an upgrade/replacement is being done. Spending any more than 2-3 minutes to recognize an upgrade a USER ID borders on customer abuse.
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I agree. You can do it in seconds on sites like Fictionwise. The system that MP have on their web site strikes me as ludicrously complex and "user hostile".