Thread: Sorry Kindle, You're Not Invited
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Old 03-31-2011, 05:27 PM   #165
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Originally Posted by blue_skies View Post
Well Amazon will not sell me any books, unless I can read them from the library first. I have wasted way too much money in my lifetime buying books I did not like. Now I will not buy it unless I can read it first and determine that it is a book I would like to own. Same with CDs and DVDs at this point too. If I am unable to borrow a book I'm interested in, I just move on to something else.

If Amazon supported library borrowing out of the box, I would buy a Kindle in a heartbeat and also buy them for my parents who are voracious readers. They always have books from the library, but would not be interested in anything complicated to be able to read ebooks from the library on a Kindle.

Amazon would make a lot more money from me if they supported library lending.
Amazon wants to sell Kindles, not books. If they wanted to sell books, they would sell ePubs as well as Mobis. Same with B&N. They want to sell Nooks, not books. They may sell ePubs but, due to DRM, they only work on Nooks.
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