The Kindle already supports a few formats that are DRM-free, though. The problem is the publishers who refuse to offer books in them.
I'm constantly seeing if I can buy a book directly from a publisher, but their websites usually have links to restricted formats the Kindle doesn't support, so I'm always forced to go back to Amazon.com and buy the book from Amazon. If the publishers just offered a DRM-free version of the book, I'd be able to give all my money to them and not give all the power to Amazon.
The solution is to convince the publishers to change, not Amazon. Just like Apple needed to convince Sony, Universal, EMI, etc...
There's a plugin for MSIE (from Microsoft) that does something similar to the SmartBookmarks called QuickSearch. I actually submitted a bug report to Mozilla requesting a feature based on QuickSearch. They basically had the option to set keywords to bookmarked sites and after my report they added the option for 'keyword SEARCHTERM' after my bug report. Great feature. Konqueror has had it for a while. I forget what it's called, though.
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And you know when Windows XP is coming out, they're not going to start out by saying "Microsoft released the first final upgrade to is notoriously buggy Windows Millenium...".
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The Kindle already supports a few formats that are DRM-free, though. The problem is the publishers who refuse to offer books in them.
I'm constantly seeing if I can buy a book directly from a publisher, but their websites usually have links to restricted formats the Kindle doesn't support, so I'm always forced to go back to Amazon.com and buy the book from Amazon. If the publishers just offered a DRM-free version of the book, I'd be able to give all my money to them and not give all the power to Amazon.
The solution is to convince the publishers to change, not Amazon. Just like Apple needed to convince Sony, Universal, EMI, etc...
There's a plugin for MSIE (from Microsoft) that does something similar to the SmartBookmarks called QuickSearch. I actually submitted a bug report to Mozilla requesting a feature based on QuickSearch. They basically had the option to set keywords to bookmarked sites and after my report they added the option for 'keyword SEARCHTERM' after my bug report. Great feature. Konqueror has had it for a while. I forget what it's called, though.
And you know when Windows XP is coming out, they're not going to start out by saying "Microsoft released the first final upgrade to is notoriously buggy Windows Millenium...".