Thread: Amazon Kindle e-book downloads outsell paperbacks
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Old 01-30-2011, 07:57 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Nor can you read Adobe ADEPT books on readers that don't pay Adobe royalties. Or B&N ePubs on anything but Nooks or ireader books an anything not from Apple.
Playstation3 games don't play on Xboxes not do Nintendo games.
BluRay movies don't play on DVDs or PMPs.
What's the difference?

Why is Kindle such a problem for some people?
They're not doing anything that dozens of companies from Sony to Nokia do all the time.
Ah, but the situation with ePub and Amazon's own format is unlike any of the mentioned examples. You can read DRM-free ePubs on pretty much anything else. Amazon stands alone against the standard.

BTW, one of your examples, Blue Ray not being able to play on DVD players is an issue of technical obsolescence. Blue Ray players play DVD's just fine.
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