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Originally Posted by ApK
Amazon seems to have gone the complete other direction and ended up in the same place. They look restrictive by not openly allowing people to shop at B&N and Kobo on the Kindle, but it turned out a huge number of people have found no compelling reason to ever want to shop at those places over Amazon, and so don't feel at all restricted.
The fact that the three or four other mass-market ebook stores sell eBooks that are compatible with each other has not caused a mass exodus of Amazon customers or huge drop in their market-share.
ApK
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true, no mass exodus yet but that I think has more to do with either
1) as your library grows on Amazon, it makes it tough to break away
2) just lack of knowledge on this whole ebook world to the general public.
to be honest most regualar joes have no idea what ePub is, Sony makes ereaders? What's a nook?
what amazon has done by far and away better then the others is strong brand recoginition. Barnes and Noble has done a decent job on the nook, sony is dismal, but both combined fail to what Amazon has been able to do with its marketing machine.