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Both Sony & Kindle introduced formats for their content that currently can not be read by other devices. It's true that you can find content that can be read by either the Sony or the Kindle, but since I don't have a Kindle it doesn't matter how many books Amazon has for sell in their proprietary format (same for Sony). By trying to "corner the market" they have both, IMO, cut both their own throats and crippled their customers. In that respect, they are IMHO both losers, in that they have lost a vast number of customers by greedily trying to capture a semi-monopoly in the ebook market.
Eventually one may win. But as I said before I hope they don't and that they eventually open their readers up to more general, non-proprietary formats and thereby to more potential customers. That way we, the customers/readers, win more.
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