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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Amazon has 70% of the e-book market, possibly more. Bezos said the vast majority of Kindle book purchases have been for Kindles and not Kindle apps, I am guessing they can track what devices books are downloaded on. This leads me to believe that the majority of Americans have Kindles. It could be faulty logic, it is a Friday after all.  |
70% of ebook market is the not the same as 70% of the e-book-reader-device market. And yes, saying that a majority of books are downloaded to Kindle devices doesn't mean that more Americans own them, it just means that the people who have dedicated reading devices are more likely to purchase books.
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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
Are you saying such an upgrade already exists - or do you mean that Amazon could do so ... if they chose to? ("All it would take" rather than "All it takes ...")
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My understanding of it is that it's something they
could do with a firmware update. I highly anticipate that they will someday open the devices up to epub, but it could be a few years yet. And I'm not sure what the legalities are around having two types of DRM on a device...? Solution: do away with DRM!
