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Originally Posted by rblover
I don't mind being locked into a store with a selection of more than 2.43 million books....1.8 million public domain, and 630,000 non public domain. Hell will freeze over before I can finish reading all of them. So...what do I need other books from other sources for...espcially when most of the books from the other sources will be the same books available from Amazon, anyway? Once every few years there may be a new, hot, Harry Potter type best seller from only one publishing house, which won't be available from Amazon. So what? I can either: not read it-as I read few new best sellers, anyway-or I can buy a paper version, and read that, or I can borrow a paper version, or other ereader, from a friend who has it, or I can wait a couple of years until Amazon does have a copy of it available. Why should I base my entire purchasing/reading habits upon what might happen with regards to one book which may be available once in a blue moon? Neither e-pub capability, or touch screens, holds any fascination for me.
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This is a case of your Amazon eBooks won't work if you later on decided you wanted a different reader that wasn't from Amazon. That's the problem. Once you buy from Amazon, you are locked in. And when you break the lock, you have eBooks that you cannot use on someone else's eink reader. ePub at least gives me choices.