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Originally Posted by TimW
Amazon doesn't lock their customers away from other vendors. Not at all. As Prestidigitweeze correctly mentioned a few days ago, Amazon makes it "hellishly easy" to purchase from their own store. Therefore, most Kindle users purchase from Amazon.
Epub didn't exist when Amazon purchased Mobipocket. It was released in October 2007 and the first Kindle was launched a few weeks later. Sony added Epub support the following year and Amazon chose to remain with mobi. If Amazon had chosen to adopt Epub, they probably would NOT have adopted ADE. ADE would have cost Amazon millions of dollars a year and provided no benefit. If Amazon had Epub and their own DRM, it would be exactly the same as it is now. The proprietary format isn't the issue, it never was the issue. The DRM is the problem.
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If you recall when the original Kindle was released there was a "KindlePID" script created that would tell you what your PID was and allowed people to continue purchasing Mobipocket ebooks from vendors other then Amazon. MobileRead received a DMCA take down notice from Amazon at the time even though Mobipocket was owned by Amazon. I think their past actions speak pretty loudly about their intent on vendor lock in.