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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Actually, we could really do without the Kindle and Amazon. Amazon has screwed people over with eBooks in the past and they are still doing it today. We don't need Amazon to screw people over with eBooks. We need them to play nice. But they didn't in the past and they don't now. It is totally not right for Amazon to get exclusive content that we know a lot of people without a Kindle have been wanting for a long time now. I would not find the prospect of Amazon leaving the eBook market for good to be bad. In fact, I'd find it to be quite good.
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Do we have some evidence that Amazon is making deals with publishers not to sell their books to other stores? If not, then it's the publishers you need to get on. Amazon can't force them to make multiple formats for other stores. [Edit: Just found the thread on Terry Goodkind. Yeah. Not thrilled about that. Hopefully, it will not be a permanent exclusive and it will go to other shops eventually. I still recommend lighting a fire under Rosetta.]
As for Amazon's "screwing people over", I wasn't around for that but someone was saying here awhile back that they sent out notices that business was closing and gave people a year to download their content again. That isn't ideal but it's far from "screwing" customers like, oh say, distributing a rootkit on CDs and DVDs.