Thread: why so emotional about the kindle?
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Old 11-19-2007, 08:44 PM   #8
Alisa
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
.mobi works fine on the unit. I think the DRM issue was because of the launch of $10 books. They lose money on at least some of these I am sure and they want a cushion of the price of the Kindle to soften the blow. Otherwise everybody would buy them for devices that Amazon didn't profit from. I suspect the design is such that they can easily switch to mobi DRM in the future if they decide to without losing anything they have now or any already purchased books. I think they are trying to drive the price of eBooks down and if they succeed we will all benefit.

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I'm aware the .mobi works on the unit. I was referring to book sales on Amazon. I'm thinking about all those folks with mobile devices and Cybooks now that want to buy .mobi content and really thought they would be getting a bunch of new titles when Kindle launched. I really doubt Amazon's making much on the hardware if anything at all. It's all about the content. That's why I'm surprised they're not trying to get as many people into the content stream as possible.
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