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Originally Posted by Rizla
One can say that one can always get round implicit restrictions on the KF, but the fact is that most users are not that savvy and will accept whatever is served up to them. In a world of competition that wouldn't matter too much. Competing and less restrictive devices would emerge that customers will turn to. The problem is Amazon's market dominance. It seems they are fast becoming a monopoly and therefore will control the vast majority of digital content consumption. And they are corporation out to make money. They will control the future of books. This is worrying.
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I agree. But I used to think publishers were just in it for the books, and had that little fairytale knocked out of me. There isn't anyone to trust with books anymore, as librarians are also being controled by the almighty dollar. Great living in a capitalist society!
If you are smart enough to convert a video to the right format in the first place (Handbrake), you should be smart enough to download ES to watch it. I find the Fire open enough to do what I want, but you do have to have contact with Amazon, even if you don't buy anything. For example, I transferred 14G of music into the cloud - took almost a week. (My family was ready to kill me.) 99.9% of that music was transferred from CDs into into itunes years ago. It is now available for me to listen to while I am connected to wi-fi, or download and listen to anytime.