Forgot your password?   Comment: Re:DRM (Score 1) 123  by
Kristoph (#37805902) Attached to: The Kindle is Getting Support
For HTML5  This is a terribly misguided and misinformed post.
DRM has nothing to do with the agency model. You can have DRM
with or without an agency model. DRM existed on e-books long
before the rise of the agency model.  The iPhone does not
require DRM and many books from iBooks store don't have DRM on
them. In fact, in most cases the ONLY reason why an iBook cannot
be used on a Kindle is because of the Kindles non standard file
format (without first converting it).  Jobs pushed for the
agency model on books to eliminate Amazon's stranglehold on
e-books. It was attractive to publishers. Nothing more, nothing
less.  (It is true that by eliminating Amazon's stranglehold on
books the price of e-books rose because publishers could set
their own prices. Amazon has responded by by-passing publishers
and trying to get authors to self publish books on Amazon. So it
goes.)   Comment: objective C