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When I was looking at e-readers I checked out the Sony page. They had themes for some of their e-readers. The themed e-readers came with a special cover, some books, and the 100 free books everyone got at the time. One of the themes was James Bond. They had a special cover with the 007 and gun on it and some of the books. I am Bond geek enough that I thought about it. The books could have been the more recent Bond novels, I am not sure about that.
I waited because I had mentioned to my Hubby, then boyfriend, I was looking at e-readers and thought he might get me one for my birthday. He did, he got me a Kindle.
My point is that people who want the Bond books and do not have Kindles have had more then a few years to pick up the Bond books. I know the Ian Flemming ones have been out for a while because I have mocked the price at Kindle Boards and here more then once.
So the whining over exclusivity is once again ignorning that people could have bought them as E-Pubs for at least the past few years. And if they had been selling well enough, the Big 6 Producer who was selling them would have renewed the contract. They chose not to and Amazon got the deal. Now EPub folks can buy the book from Amazon and read it using the Kindle App or remove the DRM and convert.
ETA: Just re-read the post and found my mistake. Fixed it. My bad
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