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Originally Posted by abookreader
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.
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 hear to protect you?
Amazon apologists? Puhleeze.  |
i do own a nook. the kindle users should not have to go to the extent of breaking drm and converting formats to access their content on a different reader. and i am not insisting amazon do anything - those are your thoughts, not mine. what i said was that my interests precede those of amazon "for me". so their having made a business decision is scarce consolation when it comes to accessing amazon bought content on another reader.
as for a majority of buyers not agreeing with me - sanity is not statistical.
the rest of your post - not sure what to say except to tell you to re-read my earlier post. i was pointing out the risks associated with amazon gaining a monopoly or near-monopoly position in the market. your interpretation of my post is wildly off mark.
people who make excuses on behalf of a company are apologists. why are you taking it so personally? i did not point fingers at anyone.