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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
On the user's (not developer's) side, Amazon is far more aggressive than Apple about proprietary content. Perhaps I lead a sheltered life, but I've yet to hear of anyone's music library being wiped by Apple. Both impose useless proprietary formats for ebooks, but Apple's format is not the only acceptable one on iDevices, which means it doesn't matter unless one chooses to buy into that format (which I do not).
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It's true that you can only load mobi files on the eInk Kindles, but you can sideload other ereader apps on the Fires (without rooting). So in that respect they are similar to the iPad in that you can read all formats (except those with the iBooks DRM).
Also, in following up the recent 'library wiping' story, it's emerged that this didn't happen. The user had a broken Kindle, so couldn't get to her content on that, and for some reason her account was closed, cutting her off from her online content. No wiping occurred, and Amazon have since restored her account.
Graham