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Old 10-15-2010, 02:16 PM   #60
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post
Any place you can buy Non-DRmed Epubs, it is easy to convert them. Any place you can buy Mobi books. I have posted lists before.

It really isn't that hard to find.
Sigh... Yes you have. But lets be honest, but to claim you are no more locked in with the Kindle than with the Nook is a bit disingenuous.

Fact, with the Nook, you can buy from any store that sells DRM'd ePubs; that includes B&N, Borders, Kobo, Sony, Fictionwise and others.

Fact, with the Kindle, you can only buy DRM'd books from Amazon (well, you can buy them from other places, just don't expect them to work on your Kindle unless you engage in the legally questionable practice of stripping the DRM and then converting).

Now, Baen, Fictionwise, Smashwords and a few other places do sell books without DRM. These books can be read on any reader (though in some cases conversion may be necessary). Most of these books, however, are not going to be the books that show up on the NY Times best seller list (barring perhaps a New Honor Harrington novel).

So, if your interest in an ebook reader is to buy the latest James Patterson or Dan Brown Novel and you own a Kindle, you are pretty much limited to Amazon.

Now, that being said, if you had to be tied to a single book store, the Kindle is probably the one to be tied to. The prices are generally as good as or better than those offered by anyone else and their selection of new books is probably also the best.

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