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In the Future, Not All Amazon E-Books Will Be Kindle Books
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I'm already worried about that especially as I highlight and note "my books" because you don't really own them so much as own a lease into perpetuity.
For example, when you borrow a library book, they erase all your notes and highlights when it goes back into circulation. That seems excessively harsh.
For example, when you borrow a library book, they erase all your notes and highlights when it goes back into circulation. That seems excessively harsh.
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Um, all this means is that Amazon is becoming a publisher of e-books, and will allow other DRM-locking platforms to sell their books for them, like Apple's iBookstore and B&N's Nook store. Amazon will make slightly less money on sales through other platforms, but will still make a hell of a lot more than the authors of the work.
What would really be cool is if Amazon didn't try to become a publisher, thus locking down every facet of the book supply chain.
What would really be cool is if Amazon didn't try to become a publisher, thus locking down every facet of the book supply chain.
3
I think that if you have an e-reader and you don't use Calibre you are missing out. All the proprietary-format-DRM concerns become non-issues with a few clicks of the mouse.
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@3 I a) don't have an e-reader because I'm not interested in leasing books from Amazon, and b) don't know about Calibre. Maybe a) would change if I changed b). I'm not sentimental about dead trees, but I have no interest in e-books until I can read them on my phone, i.e. they are DRM-free and accessible from any platform. The way dead-tree books are now.
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@4: Yeah, what @5 said. With Calibre I use my Nook Simple Touch as a piece of hardware NOT a portal to a closed ecosystem, which is what they intend it to be.
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