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Originally Posted by HarryT
The biggest advantage of Amazon, especially with the 3G Kindle is that it's all so easy. Browse the bookstore on the device, click a button, and a minute later you're reading the book. Amazon aren't just selling you the reader, but the whole "infrastructure", and more than anyone they've got it right.
You're absolutely right; if you're willing to strip DRM, and if it's legal where you live (it isn't where I live, for example) there's no particular advantage in one bookstore over another; they all sell pretty much the same books. But it's a lot easier not to have to have all the hassle of removing DRM, even if it is legal.
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Agree!
Some titles are available for B&N and Amazon. But because the prices are the same and the book is of course the same, why buy from B&N, remove the DRM (which is illegal in USA) so I can read on my Kindle?
I can be wrong but lot of USA people mainly buy from their main ereader bookstores, with the only exception of Europe or some Latin countries. USA folks don't buy a Nook to get books from Amazon or vice-versa, not in a consistent way. If that's the case, I think that person bought the wrong ereader.
Tablets are a bit different, because thanks to apps , you can read whatever you want on your Android or iPad tablet.