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Originally Posted by bhartman36
Well, a couple of things here:
1) While Amazon is obviously heavily invested in the Kindle, they're primarily a book vendor. The Kindle is an e-book kiosk, not the main event for Amazon. They care about lock-in because they would prefer you don't have the option to buy from other vendors from your Kindle, not because they don't want you buy any other device to read your Amazon e-books on. It would suit Amazon just fine if you bought your Kindle e-book and read it on a Sony Reader. What they don't want is for you to buy from the Sony Reader bookstore and read it on your Kindle.
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Good point.
Also, Amazon provides DRM as an option for publishers and authors who want it, but it appears they (Amazon) are happy to not use it, otherwise.
I know Konrath was pleased by their attitude, and another author recently blogged that Amazon was "thrilled" that he chose to avoid DRM.
It makes sense, because without DRM, they can sell to epubbers without having to go through the headache of offering another format.
ETA: Great post, WW.