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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Now Amazon is a player in the DRM wars and a player on the enemy's side. So really, why buy a Kindle and then buy eBooks from Amazon when we know history can and often has a way of repeating?
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Perhaps you would like to explain
why Amazon might about face this time?
eBooks are a natural fit for Amazon. They are the world's biggest catalog retailer, and I believe they are the world's biggest book retailer. They already have the infrastructure in place to display the catalog and take the order. Adding fulfillment, in the form of immediate download after payment has occurred, was a relatively minor change on their back end. And eBooks have effectively no warehousing or shipping costs. For Amazon, what's not to like?
Amazon is riding a wave of ebook popularity it helped create, and that wave is nowhere near peaking. I really don't see Amazon wiping out, which is about the only reason I can see that they
would stop their current efforts.
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Dennis