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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
There are almost no books available in ePub that aren't also available in the Kindles native format.
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Unless Amazon is in another fight with a publisher and wants to administer a "lesson".
I am tired of Amazon engaging in customer unfriendly actions and their proprietary approach to content formats is just part of the package. When I bought my nook I went from buying nearly 90% of my pbooks from Amazon to 90% from B&N's ebook storefront.
The whispernet incidents are another reason why I won't be ever looking at a kindle. Both the nook and the color nook will be fine hacked and separated from the mother-ship B&N if it comes to that. The kindle is highly dependent on Amazon's infrastructure. If I were buying Amazon books I would have to be proactively stripping drm from each purchase to protect myself in case of issues with Amazon. It is too much work but I am not going to lose access to my books, so I choose instead to go to more open, more exciting platforms such as the nook and nook color.