Thread: Great News! Amazon scores more ebook exclusives
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Old 03-28-2011, 08:57 AM   #96
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From post 94 - the whole post. It's just too long to quote fully.:
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
That's not the same issue at all. I see that sometimes Target as an extended version of a CD. I can go to Target and buy it and it will work on my CD player. I cannot go to Amazon and buy an eBook and have it work on my 650. I can go to this other bookstore, buy the pBook and read it the same as if I bought it at another bookstore.

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It would work fine if the publishers did not allow Amazon to do these exclusive deals. The publisher would sell more eBooks if they had them available to more people. To be honest, if I did purchase an exclusive eBook from Amazon, I would convert it to ePub and pirate the hell out of it just to let it be for other people who do not have access to it otherwise.
I have to agree with Jon here -

Darn, I hate it when that happens. But he is right, this time.
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