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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I'd actually be MORE likley to buy a kindle if a "kindle" book was actually a Mobipocket book. I think the truth is the reverse... they wanted people that bought a Kindle to only buy kindle books. It is the back end book sales where they make thier money.
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I think you're right on both counts but we also need to remember that they play the long game. The question is what happens two years down the line when you start looking for your next device.
For Kindle owners – or at least for those who are not techie and/or willing to break the law – the next generation Kindle will have a huge head-start because it will be the only device capable of reading their files. And the more Kindle-only files they persuade you to buy, the more you are tied in.
In the short term, provided they don’t make too much of a loss, they can be happy as long as the Kindle user-base is growing, because a high percentage of those users are likely to be Amazon customers for life.