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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
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?
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The answer is simple from my point of view: it's not the formats you can buy that make a difference in the reader, but the formats a reader can render. I chose the Sony over the Kindle largely because the Sony can render EPub, the open standard ebook format. I don't trust proprietary formats.
I also don't like the stories I've heard of Amazon pulling content off readers. That qualifies as a showstopper for me right there. Last year I spent over $3K on physical books from Amazon.ca, so I'm not a hater. I'll keep buying physical books from them, but I don't trust their ebook side of things at all.