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This thread makes me sad. We all want well-priced ebooks, and now we have that with the uk kindle store. (ok, before there were independent publishers and sellers, but mainstream popular writers, no way).
But, I also feel that it has come at quite a high price.
Undoubtedly the knowledgeable and tech-savvy mobile read contributors make up a small proportion of the population. Everybody just wants convenience and ease of buying when it comes to this new technology surrounding ereading. The problem they have is when someone wqnts to buy a different brand of ereader a few years down the line. They buy it and then try and put all the books they have legitimately bought on to it. They built up a huge library, after all. It doesn't take up any shelf space, they can redownload anytime they want or need to, and they paid slightly less than they would have done for the same paperbacks.
If I decide to buy a kindle 3, and I may do, reluctantly at least I will be going in with my eyes open. I won't feel swindled if I cannot move the books I have bought onto a different device. I know the apps for different devices, does expand the number of places you can read kindle bought books, however you are still limited to those companies that amazon chooses to do business with.
Looking at the website, and talking to people who are interested in the kindle, makes me feel that amazon is not being honest enough about the fact that you are not buying a Book, you are buying a licence to read a book.
They are heavily promoting the new kindles to those who may not have thought about reading electronically before, and it does feel as though the drawbacks and potential problems should be highlighted.
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