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Originally Posted by Kitabi
Did you miss the part where I said one does not need to buy from B&N to read a book on the Nook? Books from Sony and Kobo can be read AS IS by the Nook. Can the Kindle do that?
Also, you have chosen to ignore the subtle point I inserted about ongoing developments for each platform. If you go by facts as they stand now, the Kindle does not support any book lending whatsoever and this is an important feature for the OP.
On the contrary, format is very much the point. Amazon is locking customers (many of them unsuspecting) into it's proprietary ecosystem. Theoretically (and I am not claiming Amazon would do this), these customers can be later milked at will. There is precedence for this kind of thing - MS Office with it's proprietary file formats for instance.
Universal book format would be great! With the exception of Amazon everybody is on board with EPUB. Once Amazon joins the EPUB club, it would be a universal format. As for pushing EPUB vs pushing AZW, the problem is precisely that Amazon is doing nothing to push AZW. I don't much care which format wins as long as as everybody is using it. Amazon is neither sharing it's own format, nor using the format everyone else uses.
Technically, since Amazon has not been releasing it's sales numbers, your claim about it being # 1 is conjecture.
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Here we go again ...
I am tired of repeat to "anti Kindle" folks, that Amazon customers are not tied up to Amazon bookstore. That is just a perception and have spread all over the internet. We can buy for several other MOBI stores without converting anything. I have no issues with other users and if they are having a nice experience with their readers or not, but saying we are locked out it is simple untrue. I do have prc, azw, mobi, converted ePUb, you name it, everything on my Kindle 3.
Amazon will release lending features in a few months/weeks.
Amazon is the #1 online retailer in USA and the world. They revealed the gross numbers for their income, not number of books sold, and you measure the success and profitability of a company according to gross and net income. For 2010, the Kindle 3 has sold 6 million of units, followed by B&N with 2 million. There is no other ereader surpassing those sales numbers now.
Meanwhile B&N is struggling to stay alive and its bankruptcy is closer. They are in conversations to join/buy Borders because they both, separate, have not being making any profit recently.