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Yeah, the article was a load.
If I wanted to read just best sellers I'd buy my books at Wal-Mart. I don't.
Discounting all the niche books the Kindle offers as not important because they aren't best sellers is severely missing the point. Most ebook stores worth a damn have most the big books - what makes the Kindle store different, and why I went that way, is that I can get niche stuff! I hardly ever read best sellers, or a lot of fiction in general... but their non-fiction stuff is great, and I'm constantly finding on stuff that has just been added.
When I had both Sony and Kindle, I looked up ten books that I like that aren't terribly common. Sony had NONE of them in their store. The Kindle had like 7.
The site does get a bit old... I'm so damn tired of the anti-DRM screed. I hate it too.. but man, talk about something. It's like a linux site... get over your damn selves and figure out what matters most - CONTENT and USABILITY! Whoever brings me the books I want as easy as possible... that is who will get my money.
That's how the iPod won. That's how just about all tech wins in the end. Philosophy has little to do with it.
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