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Originally Posted by rhadin
Amazon won't let me download an ebook from its website unless I either have a registered Kindle or I have Amazon software installed on my computer. I don't own a Kindle and I do not want to install Amazon software on my PC. I can't verify that installing such software won't permit Amazon to rummage through my personal data when it wants or cause other problems (perhaps a conflict with software that I regularly use). If Amazon simply wants to sell me ebooks, it could make it so that I could buy the ebooks and download from Amazon just as I can from Kobo and Barnes & Noble. I don't have any B&N apps or Kobo apps on my computer but am able to buy and download ebooks from them.
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And BN and Kobo and Sony could sell me Mobi books. Guess what, they don't. When the industry standard becomes sell both formats, I will join on the Amazon is being mean band wagon. Since none of the big e-book stores are selling both formats, I am going to yawn every time I see this argument.
Kindle users are lucky, Amazon has the largest e-book store in the market. I have no idea why BN, Kobo, and Sony do not carry all of the same books (exclusives aside.) That is their loss. Don't blame Amazon for having a larger inventory and try and demand that Amazon sell books as EPub and Mobi. BN, Kobo, and Sony should get off their butts and stock more titles, it is not as if there is a warehouse that they have to fill up.