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Originally Posted by Pinecone
Anything special to know about buying from Amazon without owning a Kindle?
There are a couple of books, that are only available for Kindle I wouldn't mind getting.
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Pinecone, I don't know what you run for your operating system, but Amazon offers an assortment of free downloadable "Kindle-for-X" software packages that you can use to read Kindle content on your computer. So you don't have to have their dedicated device to read their content.
Porting the content onto a Sony Reader instead of reading it on your computer screen, takes digging into things this forum doesn't discuss.
Maybe someday Amazon will see their way clear to adding epub format to their store. I mean, it's widely believed that the real profit for Amazon is in selling content, and that they sell their devices at what is quite possibly a loss or a barely-break-even price, because that herds people into their store to buy their content. Seems like it would be worth it to them, to also gather business from everyone else's devices, if the content sales are where the cash is.