Quote:
Originally Posted by anamardoll
@QuestionFear
My own personal anecdata is similar to yours: the only thing keeping me "locked" into B&N is inertia and plus it's nice to have everything in the same online management on their Nook Library. I *could* change at any time, but haven't bothered to.
I get a little astonished when I see people claim that Amazon has 50% more titles (or whatever) than XYZ main store, because that has not been my experience.
(Indeed, I have a book on my wishlist that isn't available at Amazon but IS on B&N. But, again, Indie Author -- which I don't count.)
|
You won't be able to discount indie authors for much longer. I think we're seeing a serious sea change happening.
In any case, my argument for a while now (and the reason for the
poll I started) has been that the selection and prices at the handful of big general DRM stores is so comparable, that the "locked into Amazon" argument for choosing an ADEPT compatible reader over a Kindle seems pointless.
Not only that, but we only seem to hear dire warnings against the Kindle in favor of the ADEPT compatible ones, and never warnings the other way, when the anecdata (love the word, stealing it) here seems to indicate the Amazon customers find maybe even a bit more of what they look for than the customers of the other big 3 or 4 combined. Combined because the whole point of the argument is that you will have combined shopping power of those other stores, while with a Kindle, you are 'stuck with only' Amazon.
It seems instead it just as often the 'combined' shoppers who are 'stuck' not being able to shop at Amazon.
Personally, I shop at all of the stores, but it's usually just to take advantage of "free with coupon" deals I find here...stuff that I would not have gone looking for but am happy to try for free.
When I have gone looking for titles, I've occasionally taken advantage of a Kobo coupon over Amazon, but I've also hit Amazon promos that beat Kobo.
ApK