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Opinion here. What could be a niche store for you, it could not be for me. So this is not a fact, it is your opinion.
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Actually, no. A niche store is a niche store, your denials notwithstanding.
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This is not correct. Sir, I am telling you, I have MOBI books, "as is", that I bought from others bookstores and I am able to read those on my Kindle! Please! Get the facts or check online. There are lot of bookstores where you can download books in mobi format for your Kindle.
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Alright, let's do this experiment. Go to Amazon and pick up their top 20 list. Then let's see how many of them can be bought off other stores and read AS IS on the Kindle.
You are indulging in wordplay to prove that niche stores are not niche stores and that proves that one can buy any book and read it on the Kindle. Sorry, but two delusions do not an argument make.
Apart from the issues with that link someone already pointed out, B&N's troubles are hardly a mystery. The problematic aspect of your argument, as I pointed out earlier, is that you are using this to create the impression that B&N's doom is at hand. This is not the case. At this time ebook sales constitute roughly 10% of all book sales. And a lot of titles that depend on color or size are not even in the eworld yet. While ebook sales are growing at a rapid clip, this still means that B&N has an opening to reduce it's B&M footprint and focus on its ebook business. In other words, the bankruptcy of B&N is NOT a foregone conclusion. Your insistence on that is nothing but a FUD argument.
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B&N ePub has it's own DRM scheme, at least today. If the site is closed or something happen, still you can download your books locally but you will have to break the DRM protection to "release" your ePub file or book. So it gives you a false sense of freedom; not because is ePub, is universal and swappable between devices, the main issue is the DRM protection which of course, is implemented on Kindles too.
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Apart from the FUD thingy, the answer to this is not quite. Even if B&N fails, Adobe "may" go ahead and build social DRM in anyway. So, again, this is not a certain scenario. Plus, people who want insurance against this possibility can buy from Sony or Kobo and read on the Nook AS IS. This is not a possibility with the Kindle.
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I think we agree in something and is that DRM protection is affecting the end user. But book's availability or being tied up to a device is strictly dependent of the books you like and read, more a user's preference than something related to the book's format itself. I actually don't read ePub books from public libraries or Google, I don't need those and the format is horrible, with missing TOC. Like me, there are similar users and that does not limit us at all.
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And I did not disagree with that anywhere. I have issues with proprietary formats and DRM as it exists today in any flavor. If Amazon were to set up a competing consortium to popularize AZW and license it to others, I would be more than happy to buy a Kindle.