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Originally Posted by BillSmithBooks
Near as I can tell, the anti-Kindle faction is arguing that somehow Amazon and Kindle are somehow more restrictive than the Epub options (B&N, Kobo,Sony, Apple)...and that appears to be simply untrue.
While you can (in theory) buy epub books from different vendors, the varying DRM standards and agency pricing model means that you still may not be able to read them (despite them all being in Epub, "The universal ebook format!") and there is no pricing competition.
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I'm not anti-Kindle.
I am anti-Apple, so I don't know anything about how all the iStuff works.
I don't understand how my ability to purchase from anywhere except Amazon, and your inability to purchase from BN, Sony, Borders, and Kobo (or to borrow library books) makes it "simply untrue" that your Kindle is more restricted than my epub-reading device.
Since Random House and its subsidiaries is still non-Agency, I CAN do price comparisons.
Let's see: I recently spent $31.85 at Kobo for three books:
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulp Fiction: $10.87 (non-Agency, $14.49 without a coupon) KINDLE PRICE: $14.75
The Master of Blacktower: $7.99 (Agency) KINDLE PRICE: $7.99
The Best of Everything: $12.99 (Agency) KINDLE PRICE: $12.99
Because of a special promotion offering a free-book coupon for a $30 purchase, I then was able to get:
The Complete Tudors: Nine Historical Novels (non-Agency, $74.09 at Kobo) KINDLE PRICE: $74.09
So--if I'd bought from Amazon, I would have spent $109.82, as opposed to $31.85. Tell me again how there's no price advantage to being able to shop around for epubs?