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Originally Posted by Ditchleyportrait
yeah i just took out two books on kindle
this is going to save me so much dough it's retarded.
i feel bad for the other companies.
amazon just TKO'd. the other guys. shedding a tear for sony.
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Uh, I find it funny you say this as I've been checking out ebooks for the last couple of years with my Sony. Amazon is the newbie on the block, I still want epub to be the standard but certainly this slaps that eventuality in the face and extends Amazons single-vendor format and DRM.
It's definitely a coup by Amazon to pull this off -- particularly in this way such that they are still the gatekeeper while offering checkouts from 'your' local library.
I'm glad to see the expansion of ebooks in general, but I really am sick of the format wars, DRM, and walled gardens!