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Originally Posted by Kitabi
As a customer, I should NOT have to put up with this. The companies obviously have their reasons for doing what they do but for me, my interest and convenience comes before theirs.
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Customers never have to put up with anything. Go buy a nook. That's what a marketplace economy is about. Pretty much the one thing you can't do though is insist that Amazon must bend their business to your individual will. Right now, the majority of digital reader buyers don't agree with you and your concerns.
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If Amazon were to somehow corner significant market share, what is to stop them for jacking the Kindle price back up? Or increasing prices on books. On the other hand, if they decide to get out of business for whatever reason, what happens to your content? These questions are not an issue in the ePub world.
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Except for - what if the Adobe Content Service were to go out of business and there is no longer a company there to verify your ePub DRM?
And what do you mean exactly that these things are not an issue in the ePub world? Book format has nothing to do with price. ePub books cost the same as AZW books. If Amazon starts jacking up book prices, somebody will put out a reader that reads cheaper books and customers will flock to them instead of Amazon.
In fact, your entire argument sound eerily like the Agency 5. We can't allow Amazon to offer low prices now because what if they stop wanting to offer low prices five years from now and insist on high prices. Thus, we must save you from that theoretical doom that might happen five years from now by insisting that the low prices must stop now and be replaced with the high prices that we're scared they will insist on.
There, aren't you glad we're here to protect you?
Amazon apologists? Puhleeze.
