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Well, I can't argue about the Sony, not having one. I do mildly agree with the AZW issue, but I might be looking at things with rose-colored glasses, but I'm willing to bet a dozen donuts that Amazon will change their position. As has been pointed out, this is just a test market, and Kindle version 2 will probably address the big things like this, and many of the other smaller niggling issues (like the buttons).
I suspect Amazon has a pretty big investment in Mobipocket, and at the moment, it's a direct competitor to Amazon's own product. Unless their ROI on the Kindle is significant enough to warrant spinning off Mobi (or even just cutting them off at the knees), my feeling is that they're going to address that at a later date. I'm no tech. predictor, and I'm just looking at historical cases where companies have had internal competition. I'd hope that Amazon has the foresight to analyze things (which I also suspect they do, they survived the big dot-com debacle). Course I could just be blowing rainbows, cause I bet on Atari making a comeback based on the Jag :-/
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