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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
It is a non-issue if you are tech savy or read boards like this one. Had I not come here I would not have had a clue that I could buy books from other stores and convert them.
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No, it's a non-issue because it seems most normal Kindle users find everything they want Amazon and have no need or desire to go off the device to shop at any of the few other big DRM booksellers, just like it appears that most normal nook owners are happy to stay with B&N. That seems to be why single-store wifi shopping is still included in the least expensive new readers.
Normal users, if not for being TOLD they'd be lock in on sites like this, would probably have no awareness of any 'locking in' at all.
Put another way, it appears that most folks who get a Kindle are like folks who are given the keys to their new apartment. They have everything they need or want in the apartment. They come to a board like this and are told "if you go with Kindle you only get the key to your apartment. You don't get the key to the three storage lockers down the street."
And they find they don't care because there is nothing they care about in those lockers, and no need to have a key to them.
Judging from the posts here, it's more common that people who have keys to the three storage lockers come knocking on the apartment door (Amazon) looking for things none of the lockers have in them.
OK, so maybe it's an inelegant analogy, but I hope it's clear.