Thread: How the e-book landscape is becoming a walled garden
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Old 03-09-2012, 01:23 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
One thing about the original quotation is that it is a bit of a straw man. Sure there are three or four major vendors right now (amazon, apple, B&N and Sony) but saying that they can decide who gets in and who does, while technically true, doesn't represent reality. Reality is that they all want all the authors and ebooks they can get. If you own the rights to a book, and it doesn't violate the standards of the store, then any of the stores will be more than happy to sale the book if you sign the contract. Now, it may be true that books that you buy from Amazon are only readable on Amazon readers, sans effort by the user, but that is a different issue.
Most of them provide free apps that can be used on multiple platforms. I've been buying my books cheapest-available that way for a long time, far before actually trying to get one format on the other's e-reader.
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