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Originally Posted by Graham
Why would Amazon buy and close down a company making colour reflective displays when they don't have a competing product with colour reflective displays?
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Because that is what Amazon did before. Because Amazon has a track record for it.
With Mobipockt they took the technology but let the customer accounts dwindle away. With Stanza I don't know what Amazon did. Is it part of Kindle Desktop Edition or not?
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Originally Posted by cfrizz
And this is different from what B&N did to Fictionwise how?
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Simple: Fictionwise customers had the chance the transfer there accounts to B&N.
And that is my criticism. Not that Amazon closed down Mobipocket. That Amazon did it deceitful and by neglect.
B&N did it right: Set a proper deadline and transferred the accounts.
In any case: Amazon buying a company is not good news for the customers.