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Old 12-16-2010, 07:17 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by Steven Lake View Post
The short answer is, you'll never be able to do it. Amazon fully understands the principles of vendor locking, and just like Microsoft, it'll be a cold day in hell before they ever let go of their forced monopoly. They know that if they do, people will flock away from them to other readers and/or other services. Maybe not now, but it will happen in time. And if that happens, their goal of being the end all, be all of the publishing world will never happen.
I don't like this answer at all, but I fear you may be correct.

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The market hates monopolies, and right now Amazon is perceived as exactly that, which means they will get supplanted sooner than later.
The market hates monopolies in non-technical things, but seems to love Microsoft's near monopoly in Windows.

I talk up Linux a lot, but many people use logic like this: computers are difficult and I want the simplest thing and since the people that use Linux are smart, it must be difficult so I don't want it.

I don't know if Amazon will be able to create an appropriate myth surrounding Kindle to garner a monopoly, though that does seem to be their goal.

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Originally Posted by daffy4u View Post
This is something I've never understood. What monopoly?
The monopoly they are desperately trying to create.
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