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Why does Amazon Prime exist in Germany, but not Canada? Heh. I knew it existed in the US and not Canada, so I assumed that most of Amazon's "cool stuff" was just US-only.
It's probably a result of the very intimate relationship they have with DHL and the German postal service.
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Wow, if anything I would feel ebooks would make it more accessible for the blind by being usable in braille readers and text-to-speech! This was a lawsuit that shouldn't of happened.
Theoretically, yes, but devices which do not output all of a book's text to anything which claims to be a Braille reader are easier to develop DRM for.
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It isn't locked down at all. You can read ebooks from o'reilly, baen, pragprog, and many other non-Amazon stores on it right out of the box. It simply doesn't implement competing DRM schemes.
EPUB is not a competing DRM scheme. It's the standard for virtually every other reader and store, and the kindle doesn't support it.
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Theoretically, yes, but devices which do not output all of a book's text to anything which claims to be a Braille reader are easier to develop DRM for.
Kindle software for the blind/braille readers is something I can see amazon supporting.
However, a general interface to a Braille display is necessarily one which transmits the letters of the book in reading order, so I don't see how they can implement that without opening up a big gap in their DRM.
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Making money on the device directly is simple: You charge more for it. Keeping in mind that Amazon makes a pretty good margin on the content it sells with negligible infrastructure requirements (the kindle infrastructure would be negligible compared to the rest of Amazon.com + AWS), they don't need to make money on the device itself. The company that uses the revenue model of making money of the device and selling th…
Exactly my point, Amazon makes money on the content. If it was viable to charge more money for the device, I'm sure they would but they need those (or some other) devices in people's hands. Therefore, they can't charge more for the device. That is my point, they don't know how to make more money with it without totally changing their strategy.