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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The "initially" part *does* suggest a timed exclusive.
But if they are going to offer up ePub versions at some future date--say in 2014--they aren't exactly going to say so in advance.
So for the short term at least it is safest to assume they'll be Kindle exclusive until Amazon says otherwise.
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I've no doubt you're correct on that, we'll not find out what they really meant for some time. I was in idle speculation mode that the "initially" seemed to imply at some time in the future they've at least considered the possibility of selling the books in a form compatible with non-kindle devices.
It'd still be exclusive to Amazon of course, but not just exclusive to kindle devices/apps. If they only planned to keep it restricted to the kindle apps/devices, the "initially" would seem an odd thing to say. Of course I/we could be reading too much into a throw away statement.
Anyhow, my thoughts were that _if_ Amazon decided to offer a version for non-kindle devices/apps, they'd only be able to do that if they dropped DRM (I doubt they'd want to setup support for other DRM schemes, hope not anyway). Which led me to question would Amazon really consider a non-DRM version of the bond books.
I can't see them wanting to go that route, but the "initially" comment made me think can there be any other explanation?