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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
They have no interest in just selling ebooks a la carte. If that was their goal they would have done it from the start and saved lots of expenses and trouble tying everything into Whispernet.
The Bond books aren't their first exclusives either -- and won't be their last.
So again, your idea is not unreasonable, but it is not going to happen.
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If that is the case, how do you explain the "initially" comment when they talked about exclusive to kindle users? If it's only initially exclusive to kindle, that would imply at some later date they'll allow others to buy the books. That's what I was getting at with my original comment.
I agree it doesn't make sense for amazon to lose drm, it's a good lock-in to their ecosystem. I'm just curious why they said "initially".
Even if they sold a la carte though, it would still have made perfect sense to build an additional ecosystem to make amazon the go to place for buying books. I don't see a problem with them selling books to others too though, it's only increasing their sales and exposing non kindle owners to the "extra" features they could get if only they bought fully into the Amazon ecosystem.