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Originally Posted by wallcraft
This is true, but there is no particular reason to buy into all the vendor's attempts at ebook store lock-in. It is easiest to get Kindle store content onto a Kindle, but it isn't hard to get it onto a Sony. Use Calibre to manage your Sony content (its the best approach anyway). Buy for K4PC, install a DRM-stripping 3rd party Calibre plugin, and then import the K4PC ebooks and export to ePub for the Sony. The only downside is to watch out for TOPAZ ebooks in the Kindle store (they don't list their filesize), since they are harder to convert.
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Honestly, saying that you are buying a Sony or Nook or Kobo or whatever reader so you don't get locked into Amazon and then buying books from Amazon sounds a bit, well, silly. You are admitting that you know buying a device does not lock you into a store so how exactly is buying a Kindle locking you into anything?
All of the major ebook readers that are associated with a bookstore are trying to lock you in. Yes, the Nook can read Sony and Kobo books. BN knows that Nook owners are most likely going to buy from BN. Why? Because it is easy and because BN knows that Sony's store is, well, bad, and the Kobo store probably is not as good as the BN store. BN only concern was Amazon and that is probably why they choose EPub and why they choose not to sell a rooted Nook Color. they knew that people would down load Kindle for Android and buy books from Amazon, which is exactly what is happening when people root their Nook Colors.
So what does it say when some of the folks talking about avoiding being locked into Amazon by buying a device that is not a Kindle and then buying EBooks from Amazon and doing the extra work to strip DRM and convert the format?