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Originally Posted by Morpheus Phreak
The point being if you buy a Kindle copy of a book, it's meant for the Kindle.
If someone doesn't like the Amazon ecosystem, then I question why they are even here complaining about it in the first place. They should be using a different reader that allows them to do what they want.
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Oh, I don't have a Kindle reader. I (also) because in addition to locking the customers in, they also "lock" indie publishers in (through KDP select).
As I mostly buy Indie these days, I feel royally p****ed off that this all combines to lock Amazon's market.
I feel that Amazon is abusing its near monopolistic market share dominance to increase it to "total" monopole, and expand it to other markets, which I think is against the market's health interest.
If DRMs were my only gripe against Amazon, I'd keep on buying there. It's the combination of what others have described as predatory practices that lead me to that decision.
And yes, since I buy Indie, and most of them are engaging in this KDP select shit, by choosing to not shop at Kindle, I've decided against buying from some authors I like
As I said, a hard decision.