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I have never used Amazon to purchase any digital media because as a Linux user I find it impossible to use in a way that works for me. When I have "bought" a book offered for free, it only delivers it to my "Kindle Cloud", or my "Kindle for PC" (which every time I have tried to use it under wine it has frozen my computer), or my Kindle (which I have never bought and have no plans to own unless somebody wants to give me one). Never the option to just download it to my computer and convert it to an epub for use on calibre or my own reader. I cannot buy stuff which works on such limited resources.
So I have a handful of freebies sitting on the Kindle Cloud and I find the reader very cruddy (longest I have lasted is 90 seconds to consecutively read on it) as compared to my e-reader device and even calibre. But for a few months now I have not even snatched up the freebies. I get much more freedom from the epubs I collect and buy from other sources. Companies which aren't freaked that I have files that I have jurisdiction over.
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