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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Defective By Design is going after the wrong thing, IMO. They shouldn't be targeting the Kindle... they should be targeting Amazon.
Kindle is really no different than an iPod, in that it plays e-book files, including DRM'd files from Amazon, and other imported files, and makes it hard to move them to another reader. For a lot of people, they will not have a problem with this arrangement.
However, that wouldn't be an issue AT ALL if Amazon allowed you to purchase their e-books and load them onto the device of your choice. I see this as the only defective part of this equation.
(For the record, iTunes has this same problem. Fortunately, there are a few tools and workarounds that allow you to get your iTunes music into devices besides iPods.)
Since I have no plans to purchase a Kindle for regular use, Amazon has effectively shut me out of their e-book market. That was not smart at all, as I'm pretty sure I won't be the only one to turn up my nose at Kindle.
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On all of the above points.
The service is the issue and the terms thereof. It lessesn the value of the product and drives honest people into the grey when things go wrong.
Or the fact that you can't load your purchases onto anything else. Worse than Apple/iTMS in this regard; at least you can play your songs on a computer or burn them to CD Audio to play on a CD player. There is a limitation on this activity that Apple retroactively changed..but I'll leave that bit of slime alone
The "iPod of eBooks" line is really an inaccuracy; unlike iPods, the Kindle adds absolutely no value whatsoever to books you already have.