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Originally Posted by pwalker8
To a great extent I agree with that, and quite honestly I think that Amazon is ill served by it. On the other hand, I would not be surprised to see Amazon start to provide content on other platforms at some point over the next couple of years. Amazon is in the content business, not the hardware business. They should sale on as many platforms as possible so they can sale as many books as possible. They have the capability of being the iTunes of the eBook industry simply by doing what they do best, making it easy to buy books and pushing the customer in the direction of books they might like but not know about. In the end, I suspect this is what will happen as publishers start to drop DRM. We shall see.
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Amazon did sell eBooks before the Kindle. They sold PDF, eReader, Mobipocket, & MS Reader. They only allowed redownloads for a year. Also, when they stopped selling eBooks, even if your year was not up, you could not redownload if needed. It didn't go over well.