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Originally Posted by Jeri Patrick
The Kindle locks you into buying books from Amazon. Anyone's guess if the stats quoted are accurate or just a marketing ploy.
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Yeah, Amazon is out to create a new culture of vendor lock-in to ensure their sales. They know they won't be on top forever, but if they can force end users to remain with them, they can stay up there longer than they otherwise would have. I myself hate it, and think that it's a dirty, evil, anti-customer tactic. If you have to force people to stay with you, then you're doing something wrong, or else you're just flat out lazy and don't even want to try and keep people in your camp. You just force them to stay at gunpoint. Now on the other side of things, if you can make a product and/or service that's so awesome that they can't stay away from you, then you're doing something right. Most companies though chose the lazy way out, and I hate that, because they're more or less pooping all over their customers and insulting them at the same time.
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Originally Posted by TallMomof2
You can load any book without DRM onto the Kindle once it's converted to mobi, prc, or AZW (which are basically the same format). There are many places to acquire Kindle content including right here at Mobileread.
If you're willing to strip DRM then you can buy anywhere!
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Exactly! Too bad there's not enough people willing to do that.
