[ale] [OT] rant - decadence in society - DRM

[questy at gmail.com (Jerald Sheets)]

On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Ron Frazier wrote:
> 
>  Both the Amazon Kindle and 
> the Barnes and Noble Nook use proprietary DRM, which means that books 
> you buy there, you can only read on that device.


Point of information...

Amazon provides Kindle reading software for quite a number of devices. 

Kindle books can be read on:


iPhone
Windows PC
Mac
BlackBerry
iPad
Android
Windows Phone 7


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