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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Sorry if its not clear, I was paraphrasing; hence the quotes.
My point is that *amazon* has the lock-in, not Apple. To say Kindle readers on iPad are ging to move to iBooks *at any point* is ludicrous because once you've bought into the Kindle platform you're locked-in to the kindle platform. Buying off iBook brings no advantage to somebody already buying Kindle books.
The only growth path for iBooks (and it *is* substantial) is from people who buy iPads who're *not* reading Kindle or B&N ebooks. But that growth is *not* going to come from Amazon's (or B&N) existing customers, just the newbies. His whole thesis is half-baked.
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You are right about this. I saw a blog last week that the writer had an iPad and a Kindle 2. He said he has only purchased 1 book from the iBook store and that was just for experiment purposes. He said he use the Kindle software to purchase his books because he can read them in both his iPad and K2. He must be a MR member because he did conclude while the Kindle format can be liberated, iBook who is using ePub with their own DRM scheme has yet to be. He did say the iBook displayed better on his iPad but the negatives outway the positive (the convenience of leaving his iPad at home and taking his K2 and still be able to continue reading his book).