Mobileread has a great deal of speculation about whether they'll allow Adobe's DRM, or make up something of their own.
If they use Adobe's DRM, people will be able to buy ebook from other stores for their Kindles. (Technically, they can already buy books from non-DRM stores, but you can do that for any device.) That would mean Amazon probably selling more Kindles, but not being able to lock customers into their store--OTOH, lack of library ebook support has been one of the big complaints recently, so maybe that's worth losing the monopoly.
I don't think it'd bring more ebooks to Amazon (they already take submissions as ePub and run them through a converter for the mobi format); it might allow Kindle users to buy ebooks elsewhere.
If they use their own DRM, customers could get ePubs from the growing number of stores & free sources that only provide PDF and ePub, and they'd keep the DRM purchases locked into Amazon.
I don't know if (when?) they'll issue a firmware upgrade--or if this is a sneaky way to say "First-edition Kindle users won't be able to install this upgrade and will have to buy a new device to get access to the new features." I think they changed wireless providers at some point; this might be a way to phase out the units on the older plan.
(you know what book you want: do you buy it from B&N, Amazon, Kobo, etc?)
Heh. I don't buy from any of those; I refuse to deal with DRM or special apps to buy books. Still, I get to deal with "do I buy from the publisher site, from AllRomanceEbooks where I collect points towards free books, or Fictionwise, where I get all the formats I want but the customer service has plummeted in the last two years?"
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If they use Adobe's DRM, people will be able to buy ebook from other stores for their Kindles. (Technically, they can already buy books from non-DRM stores, but you can do that for any device.) That would mean Amazon probably selling more Kindles, but not being able to lock customers into their store--OTOH, lack of library ebook support has been one of the big complaints recently, so maybe that's worth losing the monopoly.
I don't think it'd bring more ebooks to Amazon (they already take submissions as ePub and run them through a converter for the mobi format); it might allow Kindle users to buy ebooks elsewhere.
If they use their own DRM, customers could get ePubs from the growing number of stores & free sources that only provide PDF and ePub, and they'd keep the DRM purchases locked into Amazon.
I don't know if (when?) they'll issue a firmware upgrade--or if this is a sneaky way to say "First-edition Kindle users won't be able to install this upgrade and will have to buy a new device to get access to the new features." I think they changed wireless providers at some point; this might be a way to phase out the units on the older plan.
(you know what book you want: do you buy it from B&N, Amazon, Kobo, etc?)
Heh. I don't buy from any of those; I refuse to deal with DRM or special apps to buy books. Still, I get to deal with "do I buy from the publisher site, from AllRomanceEbooks where I collect points towards free books, or Fictionwise, where I get all the formats I want but the customer service has plummeted in the last two years?"