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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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.
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Originally Posted by queentess
Because people want to buy ebooks from Amazon, but they don't want a Kindle, and they don't want to admit they like Amazon's convenience and price and customer service, so they're angry.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
Why do the Kindle fans always assume that everyone who didn't buy a Kindle secretly really wants one and secretly feels they've made a terrible mistake because they can't shop at Amazon anymore?
People are allowed to have opinions about Amazon's business strategy without necessarily having Kindle-envy.
And what's wrong with wanting a store you shop at to carry merchandise you want? When my local stores don't have items/brands I prefer to buy, I ask them to stock those things. They usually don't refuse and send me to a competitor. So if folks want to badger Amazon about epub, that's their right as consumers.
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I'm going to assume that's aimed at me for my statement quoted above.
Please tell me then, why
do you want Amazon to sell books compatible with your device if you don't want to purchase from Amazon, which is all that I said? I didn't say you have "Kindle-envy", I implied that you have
Amazon-envy. I find them the most convenient ebookstore to purchase from, but that's just my experience.
It's well within your "right" as a consumer to pester Amazon, but much like Apple has no interest in dropping prices to sell more devices, Amazon sees no business reason to cater to every device out there.