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Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors
Proprietary formatting is the biggest reason, though there are many smaller ones. That in and of itself is very "walled off."
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That's not what "walled garden" means. A walled garden is an environment where nothing from "outside" can come in. I.e., the only way you can put apps on an iPhone is through their store; you can't put other apps on it.
This isn't true of the kindle at all; you can buy books at any store selling mobi books and e-mail it or sideload it to the kindle - or get free books from Gutenberg if you want. That's not a walled garden.
And the proprietary format doesn't matter at all. DRM is what matters. And DRMs are all proprietary.