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Originally Posted by SilverBear
I don't have the wide experience with a number of different readers tht some folks have. But let me relate a story that happened within the last fortnight.
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It seems to me Amazon is trying to do an Apple thing: "All your hardware and Software are belong to us."
I'll still buy paper from them, but as far as eBooks goes, they suck and are retro-20th century monopolists in their market plan.
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My feeling too. I have been an Amazon customer since about 1995. I've been purchasing print books from them for many years. But I have an intense dislike about their ebook philosophy. From my point of view, the Kindle is not much more than having an Amazon point of sale directly in the consumer's pocket. In the computer world, Kindle resembles the old proprietary computer systems, where you had to buy all hardware and software from the same vendor. Not liking this. So given the option, I will buy ebooks from anywhere but Amazon, even if I pay slightly more. If its not available anywhere but Amazon, that is the rare situation where I will download (via Kindle for PC), then convert to epub for my reader.