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Originally Posted by HarryT
If people are going to buy ebooks anyway, surely it makes more sense for a bookshop to make some revenue from that process, than none?
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If they don't buy my ebooks anymore because I invited them to buy the ebooks somewhere else, I'd say it's a short-sighted profit. Also I wouldn't want to live from the charity of a giant. I mean, I help my strongest competitor to sell more books. Is that resonable? But since Amazon is too big to sense myself as competitor it's even more careless to tempt my few customers to move on.
If I could sell Kindles and AZW books with my shop preinstalled on the Kindle without paying any kind of franchising, license or whatever fee i.e. acting as seller and not Amazon-reseller, I'd probably change my mind. But this would be closer to competition than Amazon probably likes.
I would not have any special preference for epub if AZW were open. I like mobi and occasionally read mobi books on my Symbian phone when my T3 isn't with me. Of course I'd appreciate most if epub (with ADE DRM) and AZW could coexist on a Kindle.