Similarly to my comment above, I think there's an unnecessary entanglement of delivery mechanism (the app) and content (the ebook). Authors and publishers shou

Similarly to my comment above, I think there's an unnecessary entanglement of delivery mechanism (the app) and content (the ebook). Authors and publishers should realise the potential to reach audiences that would otherwise not be accessible, and make the most of it. Instead they lock themselves and take away one of the amazing benefits of this new format. I think the DVD region protection has clearly failed. Most players can be switched to region-free mode, and it's much easier obtaining copies of the media via file sharing or otherwise (and in many cases it would be legal to do so if you own a copy of the DVD). I was hoping that by now people will learn from the mistakes of the DVD region protection and the frustration it brought to customers who paid for your product and figure out something better by now. But this stupidity will likely to continue, until it fails again.