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Originally Posted by JoeD
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.
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Amazon doesn't need to sell the epub from their own ecosystem. Amazon are
publishing the ebooks, they can distribute the epub to Kobo or Google or whoever exactly the way all the other publishers do, once they decide to end the Amazon exclusivity.