Thread: Cover story Writer's Digest: Future of Ebooks, Amazon, etc.
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Old 10-06-2008, 12:18 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by daffy4u View Post
I see what you're saying but if Amazon truly wanted to lock people into only buying from Amazon, the Kindle would only read AZW and Topaz files.

I believe you are correct about most folks who own the Kindle thinking that they can only buy ebooks from Amazon but I think that is true of Sony Reader owners as well. It is only the more tech savvy owners who venture out to look elsewhere for content. I'm sure there are thousands of people happily purchasing their ebooks from the Sony store (or from Amazon) who have no problems with things as they are.
The difference is you can only but DRM books for the Kindle from Amazon, whereas for the SONY Readers, you can buy them from retailers other than SONY.
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