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Originally Posted by bhartman36
Amazon makes money on e-books. The more devices those e-books are compatible with, the better it is for them. The challenge will be getting publishers to go along.
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If that were true, then Amazon would be selling EPUB, which is compatible to much more e-readers than MOBI/AZW nowadays.
Yes, Amazon makes money selling e-books, but they want you to read them on Kindle only, or in one of their apps, not on someone else's reader, and not in someone else's app. The reason probably is that the Kindle uploads information to Amazon, while other readers and apps would upload information to their manufacturer. (It's also the reason why my e-reader is permanently disconnected from Wifi.)
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Originally Posted by bhartman36
Of course, there's a major difference between the two: The music industry has singles. Books don't (generally) work that way, so you don't have an analogous situation to the music industry, where a consumer can buy one song and leave the album on the virtual shelf. (It should be noted, though, that that's not an impossible model for the publishers to adapt, in some cases. I sell individual stories out of my anthology, and major publishers could decide to break up their anthologies that way, if they thought it would make them money.)
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It would be great if I could buy only the GOOD chapters in each book
It's more often the case that I hate a chapter in a book, than me hating enough of a music album to want only one or two songs.