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I respectfully disagree. There is also lock-in from Amazon because most people will have no clue how to remove the DRM on the Kindle titles and move them to ano
by brisance 15y ago
I respectfully disagree. There is also lock-in from Amazon because most people will have no clue how to remove the DRM on the Kindle titles and move them to another e-reader should they decide to do so. So the parent comment is valid.
- Tsagadai 15y agoLock-in here only prevents sales on the content side. Yes, you can't shift your whole collection between hardware vendors yet but you also can't buy from several content vendors yet. If someone announced DRM free books they could sell to all of their competitors' devices. Opening up content sales is more important than opening up hardware from a consumer point of view. You can buy a ebook reader from hundreds of vendors but you can only buy books for it from a couple (including the one that sold you the reader).
- WalterBright 15y agoThere is no technical reason preventing you from creating your own ebooks & distributing them and having them work on the kindle.
- WalterBright 15y agoYou can create & supply ebooks readable on the Kindle without ever going through Amazon.
- Lewisham 15y agoThe DRM on the Kindle was largely forced by the publishers, was it not?