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Originally Posted by RAH
However, I think the point is that Nook owners can buy from other vendors, even those who use DRM (except from Amazon). Kindle owners are more restricted, I believe, and can mostly only buy from Amazon.
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Not just from Amazon, there are a number of places that sell Kindle books and more that have them for free, but of the handful of big general DRM bookstores, yes, just Amazon.
When people say "only from Amazon" they actually mean "not Kobo, B&N, Sony,
B̶o̶r̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ or Google books." That's about it...I don't think Apple counts since only iDevices can shop there, right?
But if the mounting anecdotal evidence on boards like MR are an indication, that fact simply isn't an issue most of the time.
And when it's an issue, it's at least as likely, maybe more likely, to be users of the other books stores who can't get what they want and would like to be able to use Amazon, rather than Amazon users wishing they could shop elsewhere.
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See here, for example.)
There is opportunity to comparison shop, but, again, that doesn't seem to be a big motivator over the convenience of shopping at the integrated store, plus agency pricing has made comparison shopping less fruitful.
Kobo still offers some great coupons, but to offset that, Amazon has good special offers, too.