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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Not for me.
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Whether e-readers come with bookstores isn't up to your personal tastes. It's a binary function: Either they have them, or not. I can't think of any that don't, which is why I made the comment. If you buy an ereader with a bookstore on it, it's part of what you're paying for.
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
This is where we see things completely differently. You pay less for devices that are locked in. You don't really see that with ereaders because they aren't completely locked in, so you don't pay allot less, plus you don't have an unlocked version of the same device to compare prices with, but you see it in mobile phones: those that are locked to a network are cheaper (at least this is the way it is in Europe).
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Locked in means something very different with a mobile phone. If I switch from the Kindle to the Nook after owning the Kindle for 2 months, I won't pay a financial penalty to Amazon. The only sense in which ereaders lock you in is if you buy DRM'd e-books, and even
that can be worked around. Anyone who's serious about their readers and their book collection should do the research to be aware of what the implications are of switching. Ereaders are like smartphones, in the sense that one wouldn't switch casually without doing research on the financial and practical implications.