Hmmm, Amazon is a corporation, a business, like every business it intends to make a profit. It does this in a variety of ways. Some things it does is good for consumers, some is bad. Overall I think it is good and I am a regular (perhaps obsessive) customer. The vast majority of my books come via Amazon either as used pbooks or ebooks. Why? mostly selection, information about the books and price.
I don't like mobi format though, in that respect Amazon is an outlier from the standard epub. If they would change that and get rid of DRM and shrug off the slavish chains of agency pricing control I'd be happy as a clam.
And I am looking forward to seeing what they do in the tablet world!
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