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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
And why should Amazon bother to try? What they want is to sell you the books. If you buy a Kindle and read them that way, fine. But if you read them with the Kindle app for PC, iPhone, or Android, also fine, or they wouldn't have released those packages.
Think of the Kindle as priming the pump and helping to create a broader market for the ebooks Amazon wants to sell you and the Kindle makes more sense. Since Amazon uses their own custom form of DRM, unless you are willing and able to break the DRM, you are locked into Amazon as the supplier, which is the real point of their exercise.
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Dennis
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Isn't this precisely an argument that would lead them to sell the kindle as cheap as they can, even loose a bit of money if they have the right to ? To get the consumers who want to read e-books on e-readers and nothing else ? As you mentionned, what they want to sell in the end, is books, it doesn't matter if they make much money on the kindle, as long as the consumer has to buy books from them. I think that's more or less the "business model" for video games, or printers.