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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. |
1. I am not anti-Kindle. I am anti proprietary format which harms customers in the long run.
2. I know the whole argument about Kindle owners not being locked in. The fact of the matter is that the stores you are mentioning are niche stores. Kindle owners cannot buy any book from any store and read it on their Kindles AS IS. The same is not true of EPUB as I have explained before.
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Amazon will release lending features in a few months/weeks.
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But the FACT is it does not have the feature NOW. I thought that was what that mattered.
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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.
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1. In the absence of the total number of ereaders out there, claims of 80% market share that have been made on this thread are unverifiable.
2. Could you point me to news links for the Amazon numbers - both the revenue and the units sold.
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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.
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Ahhh, the FUD campaign rears its head. B&N would, of course, go through painful readjustment as it closes its stores but its ebook business is healthy. There are, several ways out of this and bankruptcy is not quite the certainty you are making it out to be.
Second, it is the hedge fund that owns a chunk of Borders that is trying to buy B&N and merge it with Borders in order to salvage its investment. Again, a merger is hardly a lock at this time.
Finally, even if B&N goes bankrupt, customers would not lose access to their content as long as Adobe still builds in that DRM. The content will be transferable to Sony or Kobo readers. This would hardly be the case if Amazon were to land up in trouble.