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Originally Posted by sourcejedi
The Kindle doesn't look like a great platform for social media integration. Though I think their first aim is simply to produce a Nook competitor: Android hardware specifically designed for reading, which runs a Kindle app out of the box. I suspect the Nook colour has been a real eye-opener.
I'm ignoring your apparent definitions of "publisher" and "third party developer". I consider Amazon a third party developer, generally distinct from publishers. I wouldn't have thought Amazon would license their DRM to third-party developers on the tablet, or get rid of their own DRM. They're clearly not doing it for the benefit of third-party app developers using Adobe, or some other competing DRM ecosystem.
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I would say the nook is more of an eye strainer than an eye opener,
Do you have an economic metric for determining when an entity crosses the line between non-publisher and publisher?
I do wonder just how open Amazon's tablet will be though, will they allow third party reading apps? The web browser itself could provide a decent interface to books on a tablet. I don't think Android tablets have as much built in blocking technology as Apple products do. I doubt I would buy an Amazon tablet if the tablet did not allow me to use a book provider other than Amazon, I'm not saying I wouldn't use Amazon to procure books, I would just like to know that Amazon is doing all that it can to ensure that they have the best reading interface on their tablet. Keeping the tablet open would keep Amazon on its toes as it were, to constantly improve their interface.