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Originally Posted by ApK
With which stores do you need a device to get a book? Not Amazon, or Kobo, I know.
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Sorry, it's Amazon. Kobo will let you buy a VOX book, even if you can't read it. B&N will do the same with their nookTablet/Color books that can't be read otherwise.
Amazon, though, will protect you - they won't let you buy a FIRE ONLY book (like the free kids book earlier today) if you don't have a FIRE. Same with Android Apps, if you don't have at least one device registered that is capable of using it (then again, I think google does the same, which is a royal pain). I've seen a few DX only books, way back when, and there are the various games -- if you don't have a compatible device, Amazon will not let your get the item, even if it is free. There is a work-around for the apps, which was handle before the Fire released, but none I know of on the Kindle devices for selected Kindle books.
OTOH - if there is a book that has iPad content, Amazon will let you read it, minus the bonus content, on any Kindle or app -- B&N, though, will simply refuse to let you look at it, if not on the platform they have decided is best. I haven't tried with a VOX book, but I think the only way to get to those to display is to have a VOX and sync to your account (which, as I said, is a big problem if you have a lot of books in your account, as I do).