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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
Unlike the association I mentioned above, Amazon - currently - is in great position. Most people love the site, love the prices, and love the products. So why would they tell me I cannot buy ebooks from them to use on my own purchased device? I do not own a Kindle. I do not want to own a Kindle. I want to buy books from Amazon. I have an Amazon Prime account, I shop there so much. But now my money isn't good enough for them because I haven't bought into their golden handcuffs?
And I don't want to hear any of that "go buy a kindle" crap. I want to use my local library and Kindle doesn't support that.
I guess, eventually, Amazon will start to sell epub or non-DRM'ed books (cause that is the real problem, the DRM). I hope it happens while I still want to do business with Amazon, cause I don’t like begging people to take my money.
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But Amazon is not preventing you from buying and reading Kindle books. You can read them on a lot of cell phones like iPhones, Android phones, and Blackberries, you can read Kindle books on most computers and also on a lot of portable tablets. It isn't Amazon's fault your reader is not a Kindle. But it is Amazon's fault that they do not work with Library eBooks. If Amazon had allowed Mobipocket eBooks to work, then I think we would see a lot more Mobipocket eBooks in the library.
Amazon owns Mobipocket and could have enabled just Mobipocket time-limited DRM and that would have solved the library eBook issue before ePub hit the library. That would have been a huge blow to ePub and a big gain for Amazon.