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To: mgstarr

These things are going to have to standardize on inter-operable content _fast_. Consumers are going to balk at the notion of having to buy multiple readers based on retailer.

The “razor model” only applies when you’re the only one who can make/license compatible consumables, and when customers aren’t interested in buying a variety of such consumables. I’m happy to buy Gillette Mach III Turbo blades exclusively year after year, but don’t sell me an e-book reader that I can’t read all my e-books on regardless of where I got them.


16 posted on 10/20/2009 2:37:05 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Mr. Obama, I will not join your plantation.)
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To: ctdonath2

Can you read PDF’s on this, or is it DRM limited?

Ed


22 posted on 10/20/2009 4:56:50 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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